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Psychology: Research and Review

Table 2 Profiles of school readiness based on the level of cognitive and socioemotional skills

From: School readiness among vulnerable children: a systematic review of studies using a person-centered approach

 

Cognitive/low

Cognitive/average

Cognitive/high

Cognitive/mixed

Socioemotional/low

Low balanced (B-)

1, 2, 3, 4, 2 × 5

Socioemotional difficulty (SE-C)

3, 6

High cognitive and low socioemotional skills (C + SE-)

6

Unbalanced cognition (UC)

7

Socioemotional/average

Cognitive difficulty (C-SE)

4, 6

Moderate balanced (M)

3, 5, 6, 8

Cognitive strength (C + SE)

7

Tend to average (TA)

2, 6

Socioemotional/high

High socioemotional and low cognitive skills (SE + C-)

4, 5

Socioemotional strength (SE + C)

6

High balanced (B +)

2, 3, 4, 5, 8

 

Socioemotional/mixed

Tend to difficulties (T-)

2 × 1, 8

Average cognitive with mixed socioemotional skills (SE↕)

2 × 7

Tend to strength (T +)

3 × 1

Unbalanced (U)

7

  1. 1, Tavassolie et al. (2022); 2, Fitzpatrick (2017); 3, Christensen et al. (2020); 4, Hair et al. (2006); 5, Quirk et al. (2013); 6, Konold and Pianta (2005); 7, McWayne et al. (2012a); 8, McWayne et al. (2012b)