The article discusses the correlation of the social emotional learning (SEL) components perceived by secondary school students in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The study results show that there is a close correlation among SEL components. Based on the findings, it is implied that the development of SEL competences for secondary school students is an integrated process requiring interactions among different components of the SEL model and forming the model itself via the changes of each component. Moreover, when one component is affected, the influence does not merely happen on that specific component, yet on the entire SEL model as it was a case for the participating secondary school students in this study.