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  • The unique characteristics of gifted children's emotional development are located in numerous theoretical papers and small sample case studies found in the literature on giftedness. A novel, more comprehensive conceptual approach was applied to this exploratory investigation. Emotion development was distinguished into four components: awareness and organization, motivation, regulation, and communication. This study explored the emotional development of gifted and average ability students through their ratings of five basic emotions on measures of emotional awareness and organization. Students (N = 357) in grades three, six, nine, or twelve were designated into gifted and average ability groups based on their most recent Canadian Cognitive Abilities Test scores. Three multifaceted measures were used to elicit participants' responses through Likert scale ratings, open-ended questions, and an emotion-word card-sort. Participants' emotion awareness (sensitivity and valence) and emotion organization (intensity and complexity) were perceived through five basic emotions (happy, sad, scared, loving, and angry). Separate MANOVA's were conducted for emotion: sensitivity (e.g., sensitivity-happy), valence (e.g., valence-scared), intensity (e.g., dimensionality-amounts of pleasantness and arousal), and complexity (e.g., unitary, blended, multiple, and complex emotions perceived in three sad situations). Significant differences between gifted students and their average ability peers were displayed on the first and second dimensions of the intensity variable and on the scared emotion situations of the complexity variable. No differences were shown on their emotion ratings on the sensitivity and valence variables. Significant effects were observed on the variables between genders and among students' grade levels supporting the applicability of this conceptual approach and these measures of emotion with respect to development. Further discussions and studies are required to identify the theoretical models, variables, and items that measure the multiple facets comprising gifted students' emotion development. The findings from this exploratory study suggest that basic rating scales require more breadth and depth to measure gifted students' emotion perceptions. The differences displayed in the students' organization of emotions require further scrutiny to understand the structures underlying their statistical data and graphic representations. Studies that include sample groups representing the various types (e.g., creative) and levels (e.g., exceptional) of giftedness would also further our understanding. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

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