Social Skills and Subject Well-Being of Gifted and Talented Children

Abstract The socioemotional development of gifted and talented children has been an object of controversy in literature. We aimed (1) to assess the relationship between social skills and subjective well-being in gifted and talented children as well as (2) to identify the predictive power of the first variable on the second. The participants were 269 children identified as gifted and talented with a mean age of 11 years (SD=0.91). They answered to standardized instruments of social skills and subjective well-being. One found that an elaborate repertoire of social skills is associated with the perception of greater subjective well-being and may also predict this second variable. Therefore an elaborate repertoire of social skills may increase the likelihood of self reported positive affect, self-confidence, self-esteem and good mood, among other aspects.