Background and Objectives: Gifted students are more sensitive to interpersonal conflicts and experience more self-alienation and mental pressure due to their cognitive abilities. The aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship among meta-cognition, mindfulness, and spiritual well-being in gifted high school students. Methods: This study was conducted on 144 gifted high school ...

This paper presents the design and evaluation of “the man-machine interface” a punchable interface designed to explore and criticize the values inherent in modern systems that favour one type of user (linguistically and technically gifted) and alienate another (physically gifted). In the study, participants used the device to express their opinions and then engaged in a group discussion about t...

A number of studies investigating the brain characteristics of mathematically gifted youth indicate that they possess a unique functional organisation as compared to those of average math ability (O'Boyle, et al., 1995). Specifically, data from a variety of behavioural and psychophysiological experiments tend to suggest enhanced processing reliance on the right cerebral hemisphere and heightene...

Many educators call for special attention and care to be given to the gifted in order for them to be able to better serve and develop the community. The interest in the gifted increased in mid-21st century as many specific education programs were designed and many studies investigated their characteristics. These were carried out with an aim to cater to their needs and match their lifestyle in ...

Disruptive students are often perceived to be unmotivated, low in self-concept, and lacking in creative characteristics such as originality in thinking and imagination. A total of 99 students from 6th Grade classes of a primary school in Hong Kong completed a survey asking about their effort goal orientation in school motivation, academic self-concept, originality in thinking, and imagination. ...