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Assessing Workplace Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills in Africa: The ESTEEM Framework

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dc.contributor.authorMarsh, Vic
dc.contributor.authorDelavallade, Clara
dc.contributor.authorDas, Smita
dc.contributor.authorRouanet, Léa
dc.contributor.authorKoroknay-Palicz, Tricia
dc.contributor.authorMcDaniel, Dawn
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-21T21:03:37Z
dc.date.available2025-05-21T21:03:37Z
dc.date.issued2025-05-21
dc.description.abstractSocial, emotional, and behavioral skills are critical for success across life domains, yet research is constrained by a lack of internationally validated measures for adult populations. Existing tools often assess isolated skills and are predominantly validated in Western, school- aged samples. To address these limitations, this study developed and validated the Effective Socio-emotional skills To gain Economic EMpowerment framework, comprising 14 distinct social, emotional, and behavioral skills with prior demonstrated relevance to economic outcomes. The framework’s self-report scales were tested among adults in six Sub-Saharan African countries (Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, the Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Africa, and Tanzania), spanning diverse cultural and linguistic contexts (English, French, Hausa, Swahili, and Yoruba). The results confirm the psychometric validity of the scales, supporting their utility in both research and practice. The framework categorizes skills as intrapersonal or interpersonal, awareness or management, and agentic or communal, providing a robust tool to unpack which skills matter for employment and earnings and how this differs by gender. By enabling exploration of social, emotional, and behavioral skills in underrepresented and cross-cultural contexts, use of the Effective Socio-emotional skills To gain Economic EMpowerment self-report scales advances theoretical and practical understanding of social, emotional, and behavioral skills in adult populations.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099449405212522174
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/43227
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper; 11128
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectNONCOGNITIVE SKILLS
dc.subjectSOFT SKILLS
dc.subjectSOCIOEMOTIONAL SKILLS
dc.subjectSOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING
dc.subjectAFRICA
dc.subjectPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
dc.subjectCONTENT VALIDATION
dc.subjectAGENTIC SKILLS
dc.subjectCOMMUNAL SKILLS
dc.subjectAWARENESS SKILLS
dc.subjectMANAGEMENT SKILLS
dc.subjectGENERALIZED SELF-EFFICACY
dc.subjectEMPIRICAL
dc.subjectMEASUREMENT
dc.subjectGENDER
dc.subjectSOCIAL ROLE THEORY
dc.subjectRELIABILITY
dc.subjectVALIDITY
dc.titleAssessing Workplace Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills in Africaen
dc.title.subtitleThe ESTEEM Frameworken
dc.typeWorking Paper
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okr.date.disclosure2025-05-21
okr.date.lastmodified2025-05-21T18:06:26Zen
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okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099449405212522174
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-11128
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okr.region.geographicalAfrica
okr.topicGender::Gender and Economics
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Skills Development and Labor Force Training
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.unitAFEGI - Gender Impact Evaluation
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