title: Levels of emotional awareness scale among Iranian gifted and nongifted high school students.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate emotional awareness among Iranian high school students and to examine possible sex differences in emotional awareness. The participants were 388 gifted and nongifted students. They completed the Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale-A. Analysis showed girls had significantly higher scores than boys in the total sample. The mean score on emotional awareness of gifted girls was significantly lower than that of nongifted girls. Potential implications of these findings are offered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education and Psychology, Shiraz University, Iran. yousefi@shirazu.ac.ir
authors.forename: Farideh
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yousefi
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D001364:Awareness; D002648:Child; D002672:Child, Gifted / Q000523:psychology*; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D008297:Male; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires