Comparison of cognitive, behavioral, emotional adequacy and motivational skills in gifted and normal students

The present study was conducted aimed to compare cognitive, behavioral skills, emotional adequacy and motivational motivations in gifted and normal students in the causal-comparative study. The statistical of this study consisted of all first round high school in Isfahan in the academic year 2019-2020. 200 normal students and 200 gifted students were selected using clustering sampling method from normal and gifted and normal high schools in Isfahan city. The Participants answered to the Social Competency Questionnaire of Felner et al., Data were analyzed using independent t-test. Findings showed that there is a significant difference between the mean scores of cognitive skills, behavioral skills, emotional adequacy and motivational motivations in gifted and normal students. According to the findings, these results can be used to teach cognitive, behavioral, emotional adequacy and motivational and expectation skills in normal students.