الكفاءة الانفعالية لدى أطفال الروضة الموهوبين و العاديين

Abstract EN

The study aimed to identify the degree of emotional balance among gifted and normal kindergarten children in Makkah, Disclosure of statistically significant differences between the average grades of kindergarten children due to the child type (gifted - normal), the child gender (male - female) and the kindergarten variable (Kindergarten 2 - Kindergarten 3).

the descriptive approach (comparative) was used.

the population of the study reached (4761) boy and girl, and a sample of (176).

The gifted kindergarten children were nominated through several nomination scales, as the current study used the behavioral characteristics scale to detect gifted children in preschool level prepared by Kholoud Al-Ghamdi (2018), then the Raven collective test for color matrices, then using the man’s drawing test until the number of gifted children reached (52), after that the study used the Emotional Balance Scale (prepared by the researcher).

The results of the study indicated: that the degree of emotional balance among gifted kindergarten children was high with an arithmetic mean (36.192), and that the degree of emotional balance among ordinary kindergarten children was high with a mean of (43,556).

The results also showed a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of gifted and ordinary kindergarten children at a significance level (0.01) in favor of ordinary children.

There were no statistically significant differences in the degree of emotional balance among gifted and ordinary kindergarten children due to the gender variable (male - female) and to the kindergarten variable (Kindergarten 2 - Kindergarten 3).

The study recommends the necessity of training kindergarten teachers to employ the skills of emotional balance in the kindergarten environment