Coping Strategies of Decision-Making Difficulties and Psychological Resilience of the Gifted in Secondary School

Abstract

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.

Üstün Yetenekli Öğrencilerin Kariyer Gelişimi Alanında 2000-2021 Yılları Arasında Yapılmış Olan Makalelerin İncelenmesi

“…Üstün yetenekli öğrencilerin kariyer gelişimine yönelik yapılan çalışmalarda dikkati çeken konu başlıkları incelendiği zaman kariyer karar verme süreci, kariyer karar verme güçlükleri, öz yetkinlik, üstün yetenekli öğrencilere yönelik kariyer eğitim programı, üstün yetenekli öğrencilerin ihtiyaç duydukları rehberlik faaliyetleri, dezavantajlı grupta yer alan üstün yetenekli öğrenciler ve üstün yetenekli kız öğrencilerin kariyer ihtiyaçları ve gelişimi konularının ön plana çıktığı görülmektedir. Bu araştırma bulgusunu destekler nitelikte son yıllarda üstün yetenekli öğrencilerin kariyer karar verme becerileri (Cao, 2020;Jung, 2012;Ozcan, 2017;Ogurlu, Kaya ve Hızlı, 2017;Seward ve Gaesser, 2018) kariyer kararsızlığı (Larson ve Majors, 1998;Jung, 21013;Jung, 2018) kariyer karar verme güçlükleri (Khaled, 2021), kariyer gelişimi (Kim, Seo ve Cho, 2012;Kontaş, Ünişen ve Sürücü, 2015;Muratori ve Smith, 2015;Sürücü, Kontaş ve Bacanlı, 2015), öz yetkinlik becerileri (Abidin, Amat, Mahmud, Bakar ve Bakar, 2019) ile ilgili çalışmalara sıklıkla yer verildiği bilinmektedir.…”