The journal of Secondary Gifted Education Revision of the Social Coping Questionnaire: Replication and Extension of Previous Findings

Research into the psychosocial experiences o f g i f d adohscents indi-cates that they believe others see tbem as %z@rent, I) and this per-ception may interfere with social interaction. Some authors have described the experience o f being identij2d as gifed in school as socially stigmatizing. The few studies that have investigated how gifcd adoksccnts cope with this stigma sugest that they use a vari-ety of methoa!c to control the information others have about them. The Social Coping Questionnaire (SCQI was designcd to mea-sure such strategies. The mrrent study presents an expansion of the SCQ andsupports prrvious findings indicating that the social coping strategies used by giflrd adolescents are identifiable and measurabk Factor anaIysis of the rmiscd SCQproduredfve social coping factors: denial of gifedness, emphasis on popukzrig peer acceptance, social interaction, and hiding g$edness, Gender d