Benefits of intergenerational programs in the development of emotional competencies

Abstract

From the importance of the development of social-emotional competences as a key element to favour the personal and social well-being, an intergenerational programme of Emotional Education is designed and implemented, having as an objective to evaluate the improvement of the emotional competence of the participants, through an evaluative research of mixed character, under a pre-experimental design with pre-post test measure. The participating sample are students in their final year of their Bachelor's and Master's degrees and students from the University Programme for the Elderly at the University of Salamanca. The study variables are: interest in training and level of self-reported emotional development. The results show changes in the self-perception of the level of competence from the participation in the program in both groups, being able to infer that the training has served them to increase their perception in the dimension competences for life and wellbeing.