Knowing Adolescents? Social?Emotional Strengths. The Social Emotional Responding Task.

Autor/inn/en	Möller, Anne Mareike; Orlitsky, Tal; Berger, Philipp; Zhang, Linlin; Colasante, Tyler; Malti, Tina
Titel	Knowing Adolescents? Social?Emotional Strengths. The Social Emotional Responding Task. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die sozial-emotionalen Stärken von Jugendlichen kennen.
Quelle	In: Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und pädagogische Psychologie, 57 (2025) 2, S. 64-75Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0049-8637; 2190-6262
DOI	10.1026/0049-8637/a000312
Schlagwörter	Bedürfnis; Emotion; Empathie; Prosoziales Verhalten; Selbstbericht; Test; Jugend; Eltern; Psychische Gesundheit; Fragebogen; Bericht; Entwicklung; Regulation; Jugendlicher
Abstract	A growing body of research highlights the importance of positive social?emotional capacities, such as empathy and emotion regulation, in reducing mental health risks. A key challenge in school-based assessment is the lack of tools that reliably capture core social?emotional capacities with sensitivity and specificity for mental health outcomes. This paper explores the Social?Emotional Responding Task (SERT; Malti, 2017) in identifying needs (behavioral difficulties; low prosocial behavior) and strengths (high prosocial behavior) of 656 Chinese adolescents aged 11 ? 17 (M (sub)age(/sub) = 13.73, SD = 1.16, 44 % female). Needs and strengths were assessed using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; Goodman, 1997). Results showed that the SERT differentiated adolescents with prosocial strengths and needs in both self- and caregiver reports, with moderate accuracy for empathy subscales and lower accuracy for emotion regulation. For behavioral difficulties, some self-reports showed low but significant accuracy, whereas caregiver reports did not consistently differentiate needs. SERT may complement established screening instruments by particularly capturing social?emotional strengths. (ZPID).
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier
Update	2026/3