Abstract:

The current study aims to examine the psychological vulnerabilities of the gifted students continuing their education at the Science and Art Center (BİLSEM) and to determine the predictive relationships between emotional reactivity, self-efficacy, and psychological vulnerability with the findings obtained. The study group of the study using exploratory mixed model design consists of five teachers and a total of 200 students studying at BİLSEM. The Focus Group Interview Form, the Self-Efficacy Scale, the Emotional Reactivity Scale and the Psychological Vulnerability Scale were used in the study. As a result of the qualitative analysis, it was found that the psychological vulnerability of the gifted students was associated with the concepts of perception of inadequacy and emotional reactivity. According to the findings of the quantitative data analysis, it was found that male students perceived themselves more competent at the level of social self-efficacy and emotional self-efficacy than female students; female students were more sensitive, more reactive, and psychologically less resistant than male students; while female students were found to be more psychologically vulnerable than male students. Finally, as a result of the Hierarchical Regression, it was observed that the psychological vulnerability levels of the gifted students had a partial mediating variable role in the causal effect of self-efficacy levels of the gifted students on emotional reactivity.

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