Difference between social and emotional development

The difference

What is the difference between social and emotional development?

What is the difference between emotional and social development? Emotional development is learning to recognize and express feelings while social development is the process of learning self-expression and how to interact with others.

What is social and emotional development? 

Social and emotional development is the change over time in children’s ability to react to and interact with their social environment.

Social and emotional development is complex and includes many different areas of growth. Each is described in more detail below:

  • temperament: the way a young child acts and responds to different situations, caregivers, and strangers
  • attachment: the emotional bond between a child and caregiver
  • social skills or social competence: the ability to get along with other people
  • emotion regulation: the ability of a child to control his or her emotions and reactions to the environment.





 

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