People differ in their social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) skills: their capacities to maintain social relationships, regulate emotions, and manage goal- and learning-directed behaviors. In five studies using data from seven independent samples (N = 6,309), we address three key questions about the nature, structure, assessment, and outcomes of SEB skills. First, how can SEB skills be defined and distinguished from other kinds of psychological constructs, such as personality traits? We propose that SEB skills represent how someone is capable of thinking, feeling, and behaving when the situation calls for it, whereas traits represent how someone tends to think, feel, and behave averaged across situations. Second, how can specific SEB skills be organized within broader domains? We find that many skill facets can be organized within five major domains representing Social Engagement, Cooperation, Self-Management, Emotional Resilience, and Innovation Skills. Third, how should SEB skills be measured? We develop and validate the Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory (BESSI) to measure individuals' capacity to enact specific behaviors representing 32 skill facets. We then use the BESSI to investigate the nomological network of SEB skills. We show that both skill domains and facets converge in conceptually meaningful ways with socioemotional competencies, character and developmental strengths, and personality traits, and predict consequential outcomes including academic achievement and engagement, occupational interests, social relationships, and well-being. We believe that this work provides the most comprehensive model currently available for conceptualizing SEB skills, as well as the most psychometrically robust tool available for assessing them. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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用于概念化和评估社交、情感和行为技能的综合框架：BESSI。

人们的社交、情感和行为 (SEB) 技能各不相同：他们维持社会关系、调节情绪以及管理以目标和学习为导向的行为的能力。在使用来自七个独立样本（N = 6,309）的数据的五项研究中，我们解决了关于 SEB 技能的性质、结构、评估和结果的三个关键问题。首先，如何定义 SEB 技能并将其与其他类型的心理构造（例如人格特质）区分开来？我们建议 SEB 技能代表某人在情况需要时如何思考、感受和行为，而特质代表某人在不同情况下的平均思考、感受和行为方式。第二，如何在更广泛的领域内组织特定的 SEB 技能？我们发现可以在代表社会参与、合作、自我管理、情绪弹性和创新技能的五个主要领域中组织许多技能方面。三、SEB技能应该如何衡量？我们开发并验证了行为、情感和社交技能量表 (BESSI)，以衡量个人实施代表 32 个技能方面的特定行为的能力。然后我们使用 BESSI 来研究 SEB 技能的规律网络。我们表明，技能领域和方面都以概念上有意义的方式与社会情感能力、性格和发展优势以及人格特质相融合，并预测相应的结果，包括学业成就和敬业度、职业兴趣、社会关系、和幸福。我们相信，这项工作提供了目前可用于概念化 SEB 技能的最全面的模型，以及可用于评估这些技能的最强大的心理测量工具。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。