The Living SEB Skills Project: A Living Resource for Review and Meta-Analysis of Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills

The social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) skills framework was recently proposed as an integrative model for soft skills/socio-emotional competencies, clarifying their definition and distinction from personality traits. To support open and cumulative research in this area, we introduce the Living SEB Skills Project, a continuously updated database combining ongoing literature searches, an open repository of coded studies and effect sizes, and an interactive application enabling customizable meta-analyses. Using meta-analyses of correlations and meta-analytic structural equation models, we demonstrate the database’s utility by testing the predictive and incremental validity of SEB skills for academic achievement on the current available data (364 publications, of which 30 met the criteria for the living review and 19 [26 samples] for the quantitative synthesis). The Living SEB Skills Project sets out as a transparent, dynamic and openly accessible tool to accelerate and ease cumulative science and synthesis within the SEB skills framework and beyond.