Interests, abilities, and values may play central roles in the career decision-making of gifted adolescents, so an examination of the career decisions is very important. This research aims to examine the relationship between coping strategies of difficulties in decision-making, the decision-making difficulties, and psychological resilience of the gifted, and determine the differences between male and female in these variables. The total participants in this study were 80 students from secondary school who responded to the coping strategies of difficulties in career decision-making scale, and the decision making difficulties scale, and the psychological resilience scale for the gifted by the researcher. This study used the Pearson's correlation to determine the relationship between the variables, and T.test to determine the differences according to the gender. The results showed that there is statistically significant correlation between coping strategies of difficulties in career decision-making, and decision making difficulties (r=0.631), and psychological resilience (r=0.679). In addition, there are significant differences in coping strategies of career decision-making in the depending on others, withdrawal, and indecisiveness in favor of females, and in vigilance, impulsiveness, and procrastination in favor of males. There are significant differences in psychological resilience in favor of males in this study. Based on the finding of this study it can contribute to the improvement of the secondary school counselling programs about positive career decision-making strategies.In summary, the findings suggest that high level of psychological resilience can contribute to coping career decision-making difficulties, such as impulsiveness, and procrastination, especially with gifted adolescents.
Coping strategies may play a central role in reducing rejection sensitivity and social anxiety, so an examination of coping strategies is important. Rejection sensitivity and social anxiety are undoubtedly parts of human psychology. Some types of behaviors, such as avoiding performing in groups and withdrawal due to rejection sensitivity, may indicate that students have coping difficulties with social situations. Therefore, this study aims to examine the improvement of coping strategies and their effect on reducing rejection sensitivity and social anxiety. The study will also determine the differences between the two coping strategies in college students. Participants in this study consisted of 60 students aged 19-22 years from the King Faisal University College of Education. The experimental group of 20 students, who showed higher levels of rejection sensitivity and social anxiety, responded to the coping strategies scale, rejection sensitivity scale, and social anxiety scale for college students. This study used a t-test and the Mann Whitney test to determine the differences between pre-and post-test results. We applied a counseling program which consisted of 16 sessions focused on improving productive coping strategies in the areas of cognitive restriction, expressing emotions, social support, and reducing nonproductive coping strategies such as wishful thinking, self-criticism, and social withdrawal. The results showed statistically significant differences in coping strategies between pre-and post-test scores in the experimental group in favor of the posttest. In addition, there are significant differences in rejection sensitivity and social anxiety between pre-and posttest results in favor of the post-test. Our findings highlight the importance of productive coping strategies in reducing rejection sensitivity and social anxiety in the sample. The findings of this study can contribute to the improvement of college counseling programs involving coping strategies. In summary, the findings suggest that high levels of productive coping strategies can contribute to the reduction of rejection sensitivity and social anxiety, especially in adolescents.
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