Palak Gupta, and Tarundeep Kaur
Manav Rachna University, Faridabad, Haryana
Pages: 80-89
The increased focus on students’ mental health and the decline in academic engagement
have led to the acknowledgment of the importance of non, cognitive skills in education.
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is one of the methods based on psychological
principles which help to improve emotional regulation, overall, well, being, and behavior
conducive to learning (Durlak et al., 2011). This paper intends to determine the extent
to which Social and Emotional Learning can be used to forecast students’ psychological
well, being and academic engagement. It also seeks to unravel the mediating role of
psychological well, being between SEL and students’ academic involvement. This
research used a quantitative and cross-sectional survey approach. A randomly selected
sample of 500 students were subjected to standardized tests for measuring Social and
Emotional Learning, psychological well, being, and academic engagement. Descriptive
statistics, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, and regression, based mediation
analysis were utilized for the examination of the proposed hypotheses. Social and
Emotional Learning is identified as one of the factors that significantly and positively
correlates with psychological well, being and academic engagement, as the results
show. Psychological well, being is also positively related to academic engagement at
a significant level. Further, the mediation test shows that psychological well, being
partially mediates the influence of SEL on academic engagement, thus, emphasizing
the role of emotional and mental health factors in the application of SEL competencies
in academic involvement. The research confirms that Social and Emotional Learning
have a great impact on students’ psychological well, being and academic engagement.
Revealing the mediating part of psychological well, being, the results of this research
advocate for introducing SEL in the regular educational methodology to foster all, around
development and continuous academic engagement.