Influence of Socio-Emotional Skills Development on the Academic Performance of Pre-School Children in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State
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2024
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This study assessed the influence of social and emotional development skills of Pre-basic
school children in Ilorin south, Kwara State. Specifically, the study ascertained the emotional
development skills among Pre-Basic school children; determined the social development skills;
analyzed differences between the social and emotional development on the basis of gender and
school type. Descriptive survey design was adopted for this study. The target population
comprised Pre-Basic Schools children. Stratified random sampling technique was employed to
select a total of 60 respondents. The research instrument used was an adapted observation
checklist. Its reliability co-efficient was 0.79. Descriptive statistics were employed to answer the
research questions raised, while t-test was employed to analyze the null hypotheses generated at
0.05 levels of significance. Findings showed that children developed the social and emotional
skills of controlling, sharing feelings with others, responding to others with care, being sensitive
to how others react to situations, recognizing feelings of others, and empathizing with them. The
development of these social-emotional skills enhances their academic performance. There was a
significant difference in the level of social and emotional development skills in Pre-Basic School,
based on school type. Similarly, there was a significant difference in the social and emotional
development skills based on gender. Based on the findings, it was recommended that more
social-emotional skills should be developed among the children in Pre-Basic schools so as to
further enhance their academic performance. This could be done by developing activities that
could sustain them socially and emotionally such as creativity and play way method.