The trajectory of the research group "Educating in emotions in childhood and adolescence" goes back more than 10 years. During these years, different professionals from other national and international universities have joined the group, contributing research in the area of emotional development in children and young people.

Currently, the group is formed by researchers from the Universitat de València, Universidad Jaume I, Universidad Católica de Valencia, Universidad Europea de Valencia, Leiden University, University of Bologna, the University of Berlín, as well as the Instituto Tecnológico del Juguete (AIJU), and other professionals in the field of psychology.

The members of the research team have extensive teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and in the direction of collaborative grants, research work and doctoral theses, certified in the CVs.

In 2010, the group started a new stage in the development of emotional education with the project 'Identificación de los perfiles de competencia emocional en la infancia para la mejora de la convivencia entre iguales' (Identification of emotional competence profiles in childhood for the improvement of coexistence between equals) (PSI2010-18742).

The research that is currently being carried out focuses on the results obtained in this project carried out in childhood, where the power of emotional competencies in the integral development of the child has been observed. Taking these results into account, we have considered how the development of emotional intelligence is affected during adolescence.

In 2013 the new project 'Potenciar el bienestar psicológico y la convivencia escolar en adolescentes a través de la educación en emociones: estudio longitudinal' (Promoting psychological well-being and school coexistence in adolescents through education in emotions: a longitudinal study) (PSI2013-43943-R), begins, in which an intervention programme in Emotions in public and subsidised schools in the Valencian Community has been designed and applied. The study has allowed the detection of the benefits of this programme in adolescents at a personal, school and family level. Thus, it will be possible to identify the variables on which it is beneficial to intervene in this age group. The aim is for the programme to be described rigorously, but at the same time to be simple both in its application and in the evaluation of the psychological benefits it provides.

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