التفكير التأملي و علاقته بتقدير الذات لدى الطلبة الموهوبين بمحافظة الطائف

Abstract EN

The present study aimed at identifying the type of relationship between the Reflective thinking and the self-esteem among the gifted students in Taif city.

The study was conducted on a sample of (150) gifted students from middle school students (first intermediate, second intermediate,and third intermediate ) in normally school in Taif, and were selected in a simple random way, and used the following tools: the measure of Reflective thinking prepared by Kember et al.

(2000),translated by Almurshed (2017),and the measure of Self-Esteem prepared by searcher.The study reached the following results: The levels of thinking and the dimensions of reflection in the middle level, but the understanding is located at a low level, and the emotional dimension came in the first ranking high level, in the order of dimensions of self-esteem, and the social dimension is located in the second order, The third dimension is in the order, the fourth dimension is in the order, the physical dimension in the fifth grade is average, and there are statistically significant differences between males and females in the contemplative thinking for the females, while there are no statistically significant differences between males and females in selfesteem.

There were statistically significant differences between different age groups in the first dimension: "normal work", "third dimension", "meditation", and the total score of the measurement of Reflective thinking, for the age in Favor (13) years against age (14 and 15) years.

There are no differences in "second dimension" "comprehension" and fourth dimension "critical reflection" according to the age, the differences in the reflection between group(13),group (15) years infavor of group (13) years.

Also there are statistically significant differences in selfesteem according to age in all dimensions of the scale (mental dimension, moral dimension) and the total degree of Self-Esteem assessment but there are no differences In the physical dimension, the emotional dimension and the social dimension, since there are statistically significant differences in the mental dimension and total score between the age group( 13) and each of the categories (14) years, (15) years and in both cases the differences in favor of the age group (13) year, but the differences in moral dimension between group (13) and group (14) infavor of group (13), while there is a positive correlation Statistically between reflective thinking and self- esteem in the study sample Gifted students in middle school