Effects of a Summer Program on the Academic, General, and Emotional Self-Concepts of Gifted Students

• Main Author: Settle, Lindy
• Format: Others
• Published: TopSCHOLAR® 2007
• Subjects: Gifted Education
• Online Access: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/262; http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1265&context=theses

Academic, general, and emotional self-concepts were measured among 140 gifted students at a residential academic summer program. The literature is conflicting concerning the positive (Humes & Campbell, 1980; Kolloff & Moore, 1989) and negative (Olszewski, Kulieke, & Willis, 1987) effects of the participation of gifted students in such programs. Three main hypotheses are posited: First, the academic, general self, and emotional self-concepts of gifted students would increase in the time spent at a summer program. Second, there would be no gender differences found in the areas of academic and general self-concept, but predicted gender differences for emotional self-concept. Third, previous participation in a summer program would result in differences between groups for academic, general, and emotional self-concept. Self-concept was measured using the Self-Description Questionnaire II (Marsh, 1990). Results were analyzed using a series of repeated measures ANOVAs. Application of the results, limitations, and directions for future research are discussed.