Profile Of Socio-Emotional Issues Of Gifted And Talented Students: A Counseling Approach Strategy

Abstract

Asynchronous development has caused socio-emotional conflicts among Gifted and Talented Students when their social and emotional abilities do not develop parallel with their intellectual abilities. Therefore, this study aims to identify and explore the socio-emotional issues faced as well as the effects of the problems and the factors that influence them. This study uses a mixed-method research method and a total of 217 students consisting of students from Basic 1 to Level 2  at Pusat Genius@Pintar Negara, UKM. This study used the Student Socio-Emotional Stress (ITSeP) instrument, The Overexcitability Questionnaire-Two (OEQII) and Multidimensional Perfectionism Inventory. The results of the study related to the perfectionism recorded a high score for all components where the component of the self-perfection is the highest component (4.58) and the component for  perfectionism towards others is the lowest (4.08). The results of the study related to overexcitability showed that the emotional component recorded the highest value (3.75) and the psychomotor component as the lowest value (3.13). As for the emotional stress analysis, the justice stress component recorded the highest value (4.07) while the family stress component was the lowest value (2.29). Qualitative findings show that the factors that trigger socio-emotional problems are caused by personal personality, genetics and the environment that ultimately affect daily life. Based on the socio-emotional issues that have been identified, a specialized counseling approach has been implemented for gifted and talented students to enable effective counseling services to be provided based on the students' needs