TITLE:
The Impact of Sambhavya-SEL: Strengthening Social and Emotional Competence in Middle School Students
AUTHORS:
Ashish Shrestha, Dev Bandhu Poudel, Purusottam Thapa
KEYWORDS:
Empathy, Relationship Skills, Resilience, Responsibilities, Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.16 No.5,
May
29,
2025
ABSTRACT: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) involves developing skills in self-awareness, self-management, empathy, self-management, relationship skills, responsibility, and psychological resilience. The Sambhavya-SEL Program targets enhancing such skills in middle school students. This study aims to evaluate its impact over a one-year period. This study used a repeated-measures design with 735 middle school students (ages 11 - 14) from private schools in Kathmandu. A custom 12-item Likert scale assessed six SEL dimensions. The Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test analyzed changes, while tool reliability and convergent validity were evaluated using Guttman’s λ2 and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient, respectively. Male had significantly higher levels in three SEL component in pretest results while in posttest this increased to five components. Posttest scores showed significant improvements across all SEL dimensions, including self-awareness (p p = 0.001), self-management (p p = 0.016), responsibility (p = 0.007), psychological resilience (p = 0.012), and overall SEL (p p p p p