Journal of Educational Practice and Research

【Table of Contents】

Journal of Educational Practice and Research

Volume 39, Number 2, August 2026 

【Editor’s Notes】
【Research Articles】

【Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Big Data and Secondary Database Analysis”】
【Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Diverse Perspectives on Lifelong Learning for Older Adults: Technology, Contexts, and Positive Development”】

• Development and Validation of the Taiwan Elementary School  Students’ Social-Emotional Learning Scale (TESEL-7): An Empirical  Study of a Seven-Factor Structure （I-Hsuan Chen & Hsu-Chan Kuo*）
• Exploring the Mechanisms Underlying the Impact of  Social-Emotional Learning on Life Stress: Negative Stress Coping as a Full Mediator (Yi-Luen Tsai*  & Min-Ning Yu)
• A Corpus-Based Analysis of Semantic Themes and Gender Differences in Junior High Students’ Social and Emotional Learning (Yi-Ju Lin*, Yi-An Chen & Mei-Ju Chen)
•  Latent Growth Trajectories and Heterogeneity in Secure Attachment among Infants and Toddlers (Xin-Ling Cui, Jyh-Tsorng Jong, & Chien-Ju Chang*)
• Exploring Preschool Educators’ Beliefs about Emotion Learning and Teaching Emotions to Young Children (Min-Ju Tsai)

Keyword：JEPR, Educational Practice and Research, Education, Educational Practice, Educational Research,Sustainable Development Goals

【Editorial office】

• Development and Validation of the Taiwan ElementarySchool Students’ Social-Emotional Learning Scale (TESEL-7): An Empirical Study of a Seven-Factor Structure

  I-Hsuan Chen & Hsu-Chan Kuo*

Keywords: social-emotional learning, scale development, confirmatory factoranalysis, psychometrics, elementary students

• Exploring the Mechanisms Underlying the Impact of  Social-Emotional Learning on Life Stress: Negative Stress Coping as a Full Mediator

           Yi-Luen Tsai* & Min-Ning Yu

Keywords: social-emotional learning, negative stress coping strategies, life stress, mediation model, structural equation modeling

• A Corpus-Based Analysis of Semantic Themes and Gender Differences in Junior High Students’ Social and Emotional Learning

           Yi-Ju Lin*, Yi-An Chen & Mei-Ju Chen

Keywords: social and emotional learning (SEL), corpus linguistics, topic modeling, sentiment analysis, gender differences

• Latent Growth Trajectories and Heterogeneity in Secure Attachment among Infants and Toddlers

  Xin-Ling Cui, Jyh-Tsorng Jong, & Chien-Ju Chang*

Keywords:  infants and toddlers, secure attachment, latent growth curve modeling

• Exploring Preschool Educators’ Beliefs about Emotion Learning and Teaching Emotions to Young Children

           Min-Ju Tsai*

Keywords: teaching emotions to young children, preschool educators, beliefs  about emotion learning