Annotated Bibliography

  • The annotated bibliography helped me develop my skills of finding good reliable sources. 
  • Locate research sources and in the library’s databases and evaluate them for credibility and bias 
  • I learned this skill better because reading and having to summarize the article shows you if the article isn’t a good source

Figueroa-Sanchez, M. (2008). Building emotional literacy: groundwork to early learning. Childhood Education, 84(5), 301+. https://link-gale-com.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/apps/doc/A180695052/AONE?u=cuny_ccny&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=0e6a9870

This article defines emotional literacy and why it’s important to have and understand. The author then goes into how to develop a child’s emotional literacy and how emotional literacy helps children grow and evolve. The author then talks about how it’s important for teachers to truly know and understand what emotional literacy is to then teach and use correctly. The article then includes an example of how to implement emotional literacy into a lesson. Sanchez explains how getting parents involved with the process is important because of different circumstances like culture. 

Ideas that align with my research is that emotional literacy is important because the article states that when you watch and understand their reactions to learning about emotional literacy it can help teachers make future decisions and adapt to the kids. In a learning environment, building emotional literacy affects everyone there because learning emotional literacy will most likely help the kids control their emotions and let the teacher know how to develop students’ emotional literacy more. 

I will use this article in my essay to help prove my third point that learning about emotional literacy at a young age is beneficial and I will use this article to counteract my rebuttal in the fourth paragraph. 

Ibrahim, R. K., Al Sabbah, S., Al-Jarrah, M., Senior, J., Almomani, J. A., Darwish, A., Albannay, F., & Al Naimat, A. (2024). The mediating effect of digital literacy and self-regulation on the relationship between emotional intelligence and academic stress among university students: a cross-sectional study. BMC Medical Education, 24(1). http://dx.doi.org.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/10.1186/s12909-024-06279-0

This article studied how digital literacy affected university students’ emotional literacy and their levels of stress. They collected data from 240 students to figure out that high emotional literacy had a positive effect on academic stress meaning that emotional literacy helped deal with school stress. 

Ideas that align is that emotional intelligence helps deal with school stress. A part of the article

I will use the article to prove that emotional intelligence helps deal with school stress in the third main point. I won’t use the article that talks about media literacy because digital literacy isn’t an important factor in my essay. 

Liu, Q., Zhu, W.-D., Lou, H., Zhang, D.-Y., Mu, F.-Z., Zhang, X.-Y., Li, Y.-H., Zhang, W.-H., He, M.-H., Wang, J.-Q. A., Li, C.-X., Li, H.-Y., Zhou, N., Zhang, Y., Wang, W., Wang, X.-Y., Lu, B.-C., Han, S.-S., Li, Y.-X., …Li, B. (2025). The influence of physical activity on emotional management ability in college students: a chain mediating role of psychological resilience and health literacy. BMC Public Health, 25(1),1-9. http://dx.doi.org.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/10.1186/s12889-025-24252-4 

BMC public health studied how being active affects college students ability to deal with emotions. While connecting that effect with health literacy and how college students adjust when under stress. Their information was gathered by getting 13,590 results from a questionnaire that college students were asked to answer. They found out that being active has a positive effect on how college students deal with their emotions. Which leads them to believe that if you’re a more active college student then it’ll be easier to deal with strong emotions. Knowing what your emotions are and how to deal with them is called emotional literacy. 

Ideas that align with my research focus is that being able to adapt with your emotions helps students deal with stress. Emotional literacy also helps students in the long run rather than just during stressful situations. This is shown by students who have higher emotional management leads to overall being happier and able to deal with more stress better than someone who doesn’t have good emotional manageability. Having high emotional manageability also helps students have more confidence with themselves which in a domino effect leads to them making decisions that better their emotional resilience. These decisions can include joining clubs, participating, dealing with stress, and being able to communicate with others better. 

I will use this source in my work by using these students’ results to prove that emotional literacy is important for school. The supporting evidence would be that emotional management helps students feel happier and accomplish more things. The argument against this is that students don’t need to have emotional literacy to do well in school, they just need to be organized and time-managed. The problem with this argument is that those students at some point will have to face stress and if they’re not well prepared for it then the stress will negatively affect them. The central idea is that if a student is under stress being able to manage their emotions would support them greatly, proving that emotional literacy is an important thing for students to know and understand. This article will be used in the intro and first point to explain and prove that emotional literacy is important and will benefit you in many ways.

Murphy, L. (2006). More than a feeling: developing emotional literacy will help you deal with difficult situations. Nursing Standard, 21(3), 38+. https://link-gale-com.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/apps/doc/A152760585/AONE?u=cuny_ccny&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=8f7fbf2b

This article starts off by explaining why it’s important to know what emotions you’re feeling and describes what different emotions you could feel and what they mean. Later it explains what the correct actions to take are when facing these emotions.

Ideas that align is that emotional literacy is important. This article explains that having low emotional literacy can lead to bad sleep, bad eating habits, and thoughts of self harm. Having a higher level of emotional literacy can help with these behaviors and prevent them. 

I will use this source to prove that emotional literacy is important in the start of the essay and towards the end I will use this article to show what the correct actions are to take to prevent these situations from happening.

Zhang, S., Yang, R., Cui, Y., Zhou, Y., Jiang, L., Xi, J., & Fang, J. (2025). Negative life events, inadequate mental health literacy, and emotional symptoms among Chinese college students: a school-based longitudinal prospective study. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 19(1). http://dx.doi.org.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/10.1186/s13033-025-00672-y

In this article the writers organized a study to figure out how negative life events and mental health literacy affected a person’s emotional symptoms. The authors used cluster sampling method which is when an experimenter organizes the subjects by group and randomly chooses which groups to question and collect information from. 

This article specially aligns with my research focus because their focus is how having emotional literacy affects students and how they feel. This article talks about mental health and about school which both are my focus.

Information that the article provides is that when you don’t have good emotional literacy then you’re less likely able to manage and control your feelings. I will use this section from the article to help me prove that having emotional literacy does have more positives rather than just being 

knowledgeable. And this will be near the end of my essay to prove why having good emotional literacy is useful for life and school.