Social-emotional skills, the skills about managing relationships, emotions, and tasks, have been highlighted in the research and practices. Given its broad scope, multiple frameworks and indicators have been proposed, causing inconsistency in findings. In this talk, I will introduce a series of studies we conducted in order to find out the key social-emotional skills for students’ learning and wellbeing. Throughout those studies, we have used relative weights analysis, dominance analysis, machine learning approaches, cross-cultural/county comparisons, with OECD social-emotional skill survey data. The findings suggested that persistence, curiosity, self-control tends to be the most important skill for achievement, whereas optimism, energy, stress resistance for wellbeing. The implications of the findings (e.g., targeted intervention) and our future directions will be discussed, particularly on utilizing the power of Generative Artificial Intelligence tools.

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