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Resilience among Gifted Students: Are They Prone to Anxiety during Pandemic?

Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology

Volume 10 (2022): Issue 1 (January 2022)

By: Gülendam Akgül

Open Access

|Dec 2022

Figures & Tables

Descriptive statistics_

Variables		N	%
Gender
	Girl	103	51.8
	Boy	96	48.2
Age
	8	35	17.6
	9	42	21.1
	10	58	34.2
	11	25	12.6
	12	18	9.0
	13	11	5.5

Correlations between variables_

	Girl (N=103)			Boy (N=96)			Whole (N=199)
Variables	2	3	4	2	3	4	2	3	4
1. Physical activity	0.12	-0.08	0.17	-0.06	-0.34^**	-0.29^**	.00	-.19^**	.21^**
2. Digital games		-0.00	-0.01		0.24^**	-0.26^**		.11	-.12
3. Anxiety			-0.58^**			-0.65^**			-.61^**
4. Resilience
Mean		35.95	21.28		34.58	22.04		35.29	21.64
SD		10.15	5.14		9.65	4.57		9.91	4.88

The results of independent samples t-test for resilience level_

		Girl			Boy			Whole
Variables	Level	M	SD	t	M	SD	t	M	SD	t
Physical activity	0	20.10	5.32	-1.75	20.55	4.80	-2.97^**	20.35	5.02	-3.14^**
	1	21.93	4.95		23.24	4.04		22.52	4.60
Digital games	0	21.30	5.05	.10	22.78	4.52	2.69^**	21.95	4.86	1.78
	1	21.14	5.88		20.03	4.18		20.42	4.79

The results of independent samples t-test for anxiety level_

		Girl (N=103)			Boy (N=96)			Whole (N=199)
Variables	Level	M	SD	t	M	SD	t	M	SD	t
Physical activity	0	37.02	10.39	.80	38.25	11.08	3.40^**	37.68	10.71	2.84^**
	1	35.34	10.04		31.60	7.13		33.68	9.02
Digital games	0	35.97	10.28	.06	33.14	9.96	-2.24^**	34.72	10.20	.11
	1	35.78	9.64		38.46	7.66		37.52	8.38

Predictors of anxiety level among girls, boys, and the whole sample

	Girl			Boy			Whole
Predictors	B	SE B	β	B	SE B	β	B	SE B	β
Constant	60.56	3.56		62.97	3.93		62.23	2.59
Physical activity	.50	1.75	.02	-3.25	1.55	-.16^**	-1.36	1.15	-.06
Digital games	-.46	2.41	-.01	1.71	1.72	.07	.93	1.39	.03
Resilience	-1.16	.16	-.59^**	-122	.17	-.58^**	-1.21	.11	-.59^**
R²		.34			.45			.38

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjcapp-2022-0016 | Journal eISSN: 2245-8875

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Language: English

Page range: 153 - 162

Published on: Dec 31, 2022

Published by: Psychiatric Research Unit

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

Gifted students,

physical activity,

digital game playing

Related subjects:

Basic medical science,

Basic medical science, other

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