The present study aimed to examine thinking styles, creativity and self-esteem of gifted and normal high school students in Zahedan. This is a casual-comparative study. The study population included all gifted and normal high school students studying in public schools, schools for exceptional talents, martyrs’, non-profit, veterans and private schools and schools with board of trustee in Zahedan, region 1 and 2, in the academic year 2014-2015, among which 384 students were selected using the Morgan table and applying multistage random sampling. For collecting data needed for the experimental part of the current study, 3 questionnaires were used as primary means of data collection. To achieve the desired data, the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory, the Abedi Creativity Test and Sternberg and Wagner’s Thinking Styles Inventory (1991) were applied. To analyze the data, independent t-test and MANOVA were used through employing SPSS software version 21. The results of multivariate analysis of variance indicated a significant difference between thinking styles of two groups of gifted and normal students. According to these results, the mean scores of gifted students in judicial, legal, liberal and internal thinking styles were higher than the mean scores of the normal group. Moreover, considering executive, conservative, local and global thinking styles, the mean scores of gifted students were lower than those of the normal group. Examining the results of independent t-test demonstrated that there was a significant difference between the level of creativity and self-esteem of gifted and normal students in Zahedan. In addition, gifted students’ creativity and self-esteem were higher than those of normal high school students in Zahedan.
کلید واژگان :Thinking Styles,
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