Abstract
In addition to the academic development of the students, their social, emotional and physical developments are also supported in the school environment. For this reason, students' levels of school engagement significantly affect their academic, social and emotional development. School psychological counselors have an important role to play in increasing students' school engagement, as well as all teachers. In this study, it was aimed to examine the moderation effect of social and emotional learning relationship between school engagement and student motivation on adolescent. 303 adolescents [146 female (48.2%) and 157 male (51.8%)] were participated in the study. The School Engagement Scale, The Educational Motivation Scale, The Social and Emotional Learning Scale and the personal information form were used as data collection tools in the study. As a result of the research, when school engagement level increases, student motivation level also increases. The moderator effect of social and emotional learning on the relationships between school engagement and motivation was statistically significant. According to the results of the research, it was found that the relationship between school engagement and motivation was stronger in students with low social-emotional learning levels. All the findings were discussed in the light of the literature.