The most important school problems facing the mentally gifted students at the secondary stage in The State of Kuwait (Comparative study in some demographic variables)

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Cairo university, faculty of arts , psychology department

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The aim of this study is to identify the most important and most common problems among the mentally gifted student from their point of view.
 The study resulted in several results of the most important: that the most important there are several problems facing students in general The three most important problems in a row are: I am troubled by the ambiguity of the future, the subjects are not a challenge to my abilities, I have no idea about the colleges or institutes that fit my abilities, as several other problems have emerged The order of the study varied according to the study variables. The study found that there were statistically significant differences in problems among students by sex in favor of males. There are no statistically significant differences in student problems by specialization.

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