===== Emotional Intelligence (EQ) & Literacy in Boys =====

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**Emotional Vocabulary: Moving beyond "Mad, Sad, and Glad"**
  * Frontiers in Education, Joseph et al. / 2025: [[https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2025.1610746/full|Emotional Literacy as Curriculum: A New Paradigm for Resilient Classrooms]]
  * Parenting Mojo, Research Team / 2025: [[https://yourparentingmojo.com/teach-emotional-awareness-children/|How to Teach Emotional Awareness and Vocabulary to Boys]]

**Processing Anger: Regulating the "Secondary Emotion"**
  * Scientific Reports, Meta-Analysis Team / 2025: [[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40011764/|Anger and Emotion Regulation Strategies: A Meta-Analysis]]
  * American Psychological Association (APA), Webster-Stratton & Abrams / 2025: [[https://www.apa.org/topics/parenting/managing-preschool-aggression|Helping Kids Cope with Anger and Frustration]]

**Deconstructing Stigma: "Normative Male Alexithymia"**
  * National Institutes of Health (PMC), Systematic Review / 2025: [[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12117241/|The Impact of Traditional Masculinity Norms on Men's Willingness to Seek Support]]
  * University of Oregon, Scholars' Bank / 2025: [[https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/items/cf492b3b-3ee1-4a7f-b21b-08f2ecd8fcf7|Review of Normative Male Alexithymia Literature]]

**Building Empathy: The "Teachable Skill"**
  * University of Cambridge, Webb et al. / 2024: [[https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/10.12968/jfch.2024.1.1.46|Teaching Empathy Impacts Behaviour and Tolerance in Boys]]
  * Psychology Today, Lambert / 2024: [[https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-games/202407/raising-boys-to-experience-empathy|Raising Boys to Experience Empathy: The Kliff/Vida Longitudinal Study]]

**Mental Health Awareness: Identifying Alexithymia**
  * NIH / PMC, Longitudinal Study / 2025: [[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12579613/|How Alexithymia Increases Mental Health Symptoms in Adolescence]]
  * Frontiers in Psychology, Meta-Analysis / 2025: [[https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1465286/full|The Effect of Alexithymia on Depression Severity]]