Open AccessFamily Harmony and Psychological Adjustment among Gifted and Ordinary Student
Author(s) -
Nabil Juma Alnajjar
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1948-5476
DOI - 10.5296/ije.v9i1.10365
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , harmony (color) , significant difference , degree (music) , correlation , clinical psychology , social psychology , mathematics , statistics , art , geometry , visual arts , physics , acoustics
This study aimed to identify the relationship between the psychological and familyadjustment among ordinary and gifted students.The sample of the study comprised (100) students deliberately chosen to achieve the purposesof this study, two scales were developed which are (the psychological adjustment and theparental adjustment), the result of the study revealed:- The degree of parental and psychological adjustment in the gifted and ordinary student isconsidered high.- A statistically significant difference at (α≤0.05) between the parental and psychologicaladjustment in the ordinary and gifted students in favour of the gifted students.- There isa correlation with statistically significance at the level of (α≤0.05) between theparental and psychological adjustment in the ordinary students, and a strong correlationrelation with statistically significance in the gifted students.- There is no difference in the degree of parental adjustment at (α=0.05) in the gifted studentswith the change in their economical level, father’s educational level, number of familymembers, and class.- There is a difference in the degree of psychological adjustment of (α=0.05) in the giftedstudents with the change in their economical level, favouring the higher level.- There is no difference in the degree of psychological adjustment of (α=0.05) of the giftedstudents with the change in their father’s educational level, number of family members andclass.