OECD SSES: School Connectedness and Student Development Pathways

23560 student responses from the OECD Survey on Social and Emotional Skills (SSES) in Asia form the basis for analyzing how school connectedness influences positive development. The data reveals a chain-mediating effect where interpersonal skills and emotion regulation skills sequentially transmit the impact of school relationships. Findings offer implications for cultivating student skills like energy, stress resistance, and optimism to enhance school engagement and positive emotions.

Use Cases

• Structural equation modeling of pathways from school relationships to student development
• Analysis of chain-mediating effects involving interpersonal and emotion regulation skills
• Investigating predictors of student school engagement and positive emotions
• Research on the role of energy, stress resistance, and optimism in educational settings

Strengths

• Large sample size of 23,560 students from a major international survey (OECD SSES)
• Clear, open license (CC-BY-4.0) facilitating reuse and analysis
• Cross-platform presence (DataCite, figshare) indicates validation and importance

Limitations

• Column names and specific variable definitions are not provided in the metadata
• The dataset's temporal coverage and specific Asian countries included are not specified
• The primary data file is a ZIP archive, requiring extraction and potentially lacking immediate documentation

Provenance

Source

OECD Survey on Social and Emotional Skills (SSES), Asian data subset

Collection Method

Survey data collection, likely via standardized OECD SSES instruments

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-23

Geography

Asia (specific countries not detailed)