How to enhance "dullness" by improving "music quotient"? Beyond IQ and EQ, Yang Xiong: Under Pressure and Anxiety, Society | Adolescents | Sensibility
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in recent years, teenagers have become more "homey" and accustomed to virtual socializing.
"The acceleration of social transformation has led to an increase in the anxiety of young people. In addition to the impact of online public opinion and multiple information, the social emotions and psychology of young people have formed contradictions and conflicts." Yang Xiong, director of the Shanghai Children's Development Research Center, said on the 27th that, on the contrary, young people still lack effective social support, their pressure bearing ability is declining, and their dependence on mobile phones and the Internet is growing habitually.
The researcher from the Institute of Sociology, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, revealed at East China Normal University that his team's research results on "Current Social Psychology and Psychological Health Status of Adolescents and Countermeasures", combined with multiple surveys, showed that contemporary youth groups have psychological problems such as "narrow social circles, lack of emotional management and communication skills, feeling lonely and helpless" in terms of social and emotional abilities.
Non cognitive abilities cannot be biased
Most parents pay attention to their children's academic performance, but does emotional intelligence not affect intelligence? In fact, social emotional ability belongs to the category of "great emotional intelligence", which includes in a larger scope: self-awareness and expression, emotional and behavioral regulation, social proactivity, awareness of others, social problem-solving, collective and rule awareness, etc.
As the Secretary General of the Family Education Guidance Committee of the Ministry of Education and Director of the Children's Family Education Research Center at Beijing Normal University, Professor Bian Yufang stated today at the "Youth Social and Emotional Ability Training Home School Cooperation Forum" that a large amount of research has confirmed that social emotional ability plays an important role in individual development, can predict individual academic success, and also has a positive effect on individual academic emotions and attitudes, school attitudes, etc. She said that an individual's early social and emotional abilities also play an important role in their future long-term development. "Individuals with strong social and emotional abilities in the early stages are more likely to achieve academic and interpersonal success in adulthood."
Therefore, it is not difficult to answer which field of development is more important, cognitive ability or non cognitive ability. Bian Yufang believes that the development of abilities in these two fields is particularly important for both individual lifelong development and social development, and cannot be biased.
The UNESCO Education 2030 Action Framework clearly states that education needs to focus on cognitive development, and more importantly, on social and emotional abilities. "A person's development, success, and happiness are the result of the combined effects of cognitive, social, and emotional abilities."
Enhancing Youth's "Robustness"
In response to social pressure and psychological anxiety among young people, Researcher Yang Xiong proposes to cultivate their "dullness" and enhance their "robustness".
The term "dullness" was coined by Japanese writer Junichi Watanabe. According to the author's own interpretation, "dullness" can be translated as "dull power", which means calmly facing setbacks and pains in life, and resolutely moving forward in one's own direction. People with a strong sense of dullness can view problems more objectively, not be influenced by emotions, not worry about small things, and are no longer sensitive to things that are not going well, thus better judging the essence of things. For teenagers, Yang Xiong suggests not to be overly sensitive in everything, learn to let go of past emotions, not be troubled by the past, and better grasp the present and future.
"Robustness" is a transliteration of scientific terms, also known as robustness or resilience, generally used to describe the stability of a system. When encountering certain interference, its performance can still remain relatively stable. For example, in crop variety improvement, "robustness" is an important indicator. Some wheat varieties have strong resistance to diseases, pests, and lodging, indicating that they can maintain their structural and functional stability in the presence of external uncertainties, and have strong adaptability to the environment, which means they have strong robustness.
In reality, children with strong robustness often have strong adaptability to life and high learning efficiency. Yang Xiong believes that exercising "robustness" requires practice, for example, parents can learn from the methods of farmers cultivating new varieties, deliberately breaking conventions, such as changing schedules and content arrangements.
"In a society full of uncertainty, breaking free from conventional activities is a good psychological coping training that can promote some children with more rigid thinking to adapt to changes." Yang Xiong said that at the beginning of changing rules, children may feel uncomfortable and uncomfortable, but after trying, they may find that "games become more diverse, challenging, and fun, and they can adapt to new rules happily."
"Le Shang" is a cultivable ability
At present, in addition to intelligence and emotional intelligence, many people also value knowledge and skill based quotients such as financial intelligence. Yang Xiong proposed an updated "quotient" - "happiness quotient", which helps teenagers learn "happiness" and continuously improve their happiness index.
In his eyes, a considerable number of teenagers do not understand "happiness". "Le Shang" is a popular expression of happiness ability and a new concept proposed in the development of positive psychology at a new stage. He believes that happiness is not only a subjective feeling state, but also a cultivable ability. This kind of "Le Shang" is an important ability for sustainable development in life.
Professor Wu Zhonghan, Vice Chairman of the Family Education Committee of the Chinese Education Association, explains the modern family education with nested structures
The Jiefang Daily Shangguan News reporter learned that the forum hosted by the Education Department of East China Normal University and the General Education Institute of the Shanghai Academy of Education Sciences focuses on "home school cooperation", which means that the cultivation of social and emotional abilities among young people is influenced by the synergistic effect of families, schools, and even society.
Specifically, Professor Bian Yufang values "family teacher cooperation". For example, in supportive home teacher cooperation, when parents and teachers share the same educational concepts and behaviors, it can provide children with consistent information, create a consistent environment for children at home and school, and enhance their social and emotional abilities, such as empathy, collaboration, attention, etc.
In destructive family teacher cooperation, parents and teachers may have inconsistent educational concepts and behaviors, which may provide children with inconsistent behavioral norms and standards, which is not conducive to the development of children's emotional and behavioral regulation abilities.
