affective
adj.adj. relating to your feelings, emotions, or how you connect with other people. It describes things that influence your mood or how you feel about something.
adj. relating to the emotional or psychological aspects of a person or process. Often used in psychology to describe the internal experience of feelings, or in linguistics to describe the grammatical category of mood.
The teacher noticed the student's affective needs during the lesson.
The new curriculum includes affective learning strategies to help students manage their stress and build confidence.
While cognitive development is often the primary focus of early education, affective growth is equally vital for a child's ability to form healthy social bonds and regulate their own emotional responses.
From Medieval Latin affectivus, from Latin affectus, past participle of afficere (“to affect”). By surface analysis, affect + -ive.