Faming Wang

Students and schools have distinct configurations of socio-emotional skills: a multilevel latent profile analysis

Abstract Socio-emotional skills have attracted increasing attention due to their significance to students’ academic and well-being outcomes. However, there is ongoing debate in the literature over whether students’ socio-emotional skills vary quantitatively or qualitatively. Furt...

Which social contexts best predict adolescents’ social-emotional skills: Combining machine learning and traditional statistics

Social-emotional skills have been demonstrated to be crucial for adolescents’ success in the 21 st century. However, past studies have primarily focused on the consequences of these skills, with little attention devoted to understanding the factors that could facilitate these ski...