Perfectionism and Exam Anxiety among Gifted and Ordinary Students in the State of Kuwait (A Comparative study)

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1 Psychology, faculty of women, ain shams university, cairo egypt.

2 Psychological department.. woman college Ain shams university

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The aim of the research is to reveal the differences between perfectionism and exam anxiety among gifted and ordinary students in the State of Kuwait. The sample consisted of (60) ordinary students and (43) gifted students. Two scales were applied to them, one to diagnose perfectionism and the other to measure test anxiety, prepared by the two researchers, The results of the study found that there are differences between gifted students and their normal peers of middle school students regarding the scale of perfectionism in the direction of gifted students, The results also found that there are differences between gifted students and their normal peers from middle school students regarding the exam anxiety scale in the direction of gifted students, The results also concluded that there are no differences due to gender regarding perfectionism and its components, and there were no differences for the effect of gender on the exam anxiety scale and its components, except for the emotional component, The differences were in the direction of females, and the results also found a positive correlation between exam anxiety and perfectionism.

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Buhūth
Volume 1, Issue 10 - Serial Number 10
Social Sciences and Humanities
October 2021
Pages 56-89

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