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<sec id="j_sjcapp-2022-0016_s_011"><h3>Background</h3>
<p>Resilience is an important protective factor for psychological wellbeing. According to the previous literature, physical activity level and digital game playing are likely to impact anxiety level.</p></sec>
<sec id="j_sjcapp-2022-0016_s_012"><h3>Objective</h3>
<p>The present study aimed to identify the role of resilience, doing physical activity, and playing digital games on gifted children's anxiety levels during the Pandemic period in 2021 in Turkey.</p></sec>
<sec id="j_sjcapp-2022-0016_s_013"><h3>Method</h3>
<p>The sample consisted of 199 gifted students. Anxiety was measured using the Spielberger's State Anxiety Inventory. Resilience was measured using The Brief Resilience Scale. The physical activity and online/digital game-playing were measured using two open-ended questions.</p></sec>
<sec id="j_sjcapp-2022-0016_s_014"><h3>Results</h3>
<p>Results provided evidence that resilience had a strong negative association with anxiety among gifted students during the Pandemic period (β = -.59, p&lt;.001). Doing physical activity was associated with anxiety among gifted boys (β = -.16, p&lt;.001) but not girls. Finally, digital game playing was associated with anxiety among neither girls nor boys.</p></sec>
<sec id="j_sjcapp-2022-0016_s_015"><h3>Conclusions</h3>
<p>These results reflected the importance of resilience for anxiety.</p></sec>
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Background
Resilience is an important protective factor for psychological wellbeing. According to the previous literature, physical activity level and digital game playing are likely to impact anxiety level.
Objective
The present study aimed to identify the role of resilience, doing physical activity, and playing digital games on gifted children's anxiety levels during the Pandemic period in 2021 in Turkey.
Method
The sample consisted of 199 gifted students. Anxiety was measured using the Spielberger's State Anxiety Inventory. Resilience was measured using The Brief Resilience Scale. The physical activity and online/digital game-playing were measured using two open-ended questions.
Results
Results provided evidence that resilience had a strong negative association with anxiety among gifted students during the Pandemic period (β = -.59, p<.001). Doing physical activity was associated with anxiety among gifted boys (β = -.16, p<.001) but not girls. Finally, digital game playing was associated with anxiety among neither girls nor boys.
Conclusions
These results reflected the importance of resilience for anxiety.

Resilience among Gifted Students: Are They Prone to Anxiety during Pandemic?

Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology

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Background
Resilience is an important protective factor for psychological wellbeing. According to the previous literature, physical activity level and digital...

Variables		N	%
Gender
	Girl	103	51.8
	Boy	96	48.2
Age
	8	35	17.6
	9	42	21.1
	10	58	34.2
	11	25	12.6
	12	18	9.0
	13	11	5.5

	Girl (N=103)			Boy (N=96)			Whole (N=199)
Variables	2	3	4	2	3	4	2	3	4
1. Physical activity	0.12	-0.08	0.17	-0.06	-0.34^**	-0.29^**	.00	-.19^**	.21^**
2. Digital games		-0.00	-0.01		0.24^**	-0.26^**		.11	-.12
3. Anxiety			-0.58^**			-0.65^**			-.61^**
4. Resilience
Mean		35.95	21.28		34.58	22.04		35.29	21.64
SD		10.15	5.14		9.65	4.57		9.91	4.88

		Girl			Boy			Whole
Variables	Level	M	SD	t	M	SD	t	M	SD	t
Physical activity	0	20.10	5.32	-1.75	20.55	4.80	-2.97^**	20.35	5.02	-3.14^**
	1	21.93	4.95		23.24	4.04		22.52	4.60
Digital games	0	21.30	5.05	.10	22.78	4.52	2.69^**	21.95	4.86	1.78
	1	21.14	5.88		20.03	4.18		20.42	4.79

		Girl (N=103)			Boy (N=96)			Whole (N=199)
Variables	Level	M	SD	t	M	SD	t	M	SD	t
Physical activity	0	37.02	10.39	.80	38.25	11.08	3.40^**	37.68	10.71	2.84^**
	1	35.34	10.04		31.60	7.13		33.68	9.02
Digital games	0	35.97	10.28	.06	33.14	9.96	-2.24^**	34.72	10.20	.11
	1	35.78	9.64		38.46	7.66		37.52	8.38

	Girl			Boy			Whole
Predictors	B	SE B	β	B	SE B	β	B	SE B	β
Constant	60.56	3.56		62.97	3.93		62.23	2.59
Physical activity	.50	1.75	.02	-3.25	1.55	-.16^**	-1.36	1.15	-.06
Digital games	-.46	2.41	-.01	1.71	1.72	.07	.93	1.39	.03
Resilience	-1.16	.16	-.59^**	-122	.17	-.58^**	-1.21	.11	-.59^**
R²		.34			.45			.38

Resilience among Gifted Students: Are They Prone to Anxiety during Pandemic?

Article Category: Research Article

Data publikacji: 31 gru 2022

Zakres stron: 153 - 162

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjcapp-2022-0016

Słowa kluczowe
Gifted students, anxiety, resilience, physical activity, digital game playing

© 2022 Gülendam Akgül, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Descriptive statistics.

Correlations between variables.

The results of independent samples t-test for resilience level.

The results of independent samples t-test for anxiety level.

Predictors of anxiety level among girls, boys, and the whole sample

Resilience among Gifted Students: Are They Prone to Anxiety during Pandemic?

Article Category: Research Article

Data publikacji: 31 gru 2022

Zakres stron: 153 - 162

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjcapp-2022-0016

Słowa kluczoweGifted students, anxiety, resilience, physical activity, digital game playing

© 2022 Gülendam Akgül, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Descriptive statistics.

Correlations between variables.

The results of independent samples t-test for resilience level.

The results of independent samples t-test for anxiety level.

Predictors of anxiety level among girls, boys, and the whole sample

Słowa kluczowe
Gifted students, anxiety, resilience, physical activity, digital game playing