Exploring the Relationship Between Socio-emotional Process and Collaborative Problem Solving

Abstract

In recent years, researchers begin to pay attention to the socio-emotional process in collaborative learning. This study took postgraduate students as participants and used non participatory observation method to explore the socio-emotional process in collaborative problem-solving process as well as the role of socio-emotional interaction in the process of collaborative problem solving. The findings show that although there is no obvious correlation between the quality of socio-emotional process and collaborative problem-solving results, positive social-emotional interaction can promote group members to eliminate disagreements, make the separated team members rejoin in collaboration, and make members quickly compromise when facing common difficulties.