Analysis of the Gifted's Parents' Awareness in Turkey

Abstract

This study analyzes the awareness about giftedness of parents of gifted based on various demographic variables. This is a quantitative study done with the screening model, one of the descriptive research methods. The study participants are 187 parents whose children were diagnosed as gifted and talented (6-10 years of age) in 2019. The "Personal Information Form," designed by the researchers, was used to collect data on predetermined qualitative factors (gender, education level, occupation, income, etc). To determine the parents of the gifted's awareness, "The Parent Awareness Scale The Gifted Children Form (PAS- GC) was used. A ready-made statistical program was used in the analysis of the data. Preliminary analyses show that the normality assumption could not be met, so the Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests have been applied to investigate the differences between the variables. As a result of the analyses, gifted's parents' awareness rate about parenting giftedness needed to be increased for some essential areas of gifted education, such as stress and conflict, perfectionism, motivation-achievement, and responsibility/self-regulated subjects. Also, there was no significant difference between participants because of the demographic factors on awareness of parenting gifted. The results are important in emphasizing the need for all parents of gifted children to develop awareness.