Changes in emotional resilience: Gifted adolescent boys

Abstract

That gifted males experience significant changes in social and emotional valence during the school years was the hypothesis for a cross‐sectional study of first through twelfth‐grade males. The study identified 82 subjects. A 138‐item youth questionnaire, which focused on self‐confidence, perfectionism, relationships with parents, relationships with peers, hopelessness, and discouragement question clusters was administered. Analysis of the data indicates a significantly higher level of discouragement and hopeless feeling for junior high school boys as compared with senior high school boys.