Bullying entre estudantes com e sem características de dotação e talento

Abstract

To compare the occurrence of bullying among students with and without characteristics of giftedness and talent it was applied a questionnaire to 339 elementary school students, being 59 of them gifted students. No significant differences were found between subgroups with and without giftedness in regard to their involvement with bullying, types of aggression suffered and sociometric variables. Gifted students more often adopt the behavior of calling for help to combat bullying. Students with talent for arts tend to be more victimized than the ones gifted in other domains. Although few variables related to socioemotional adjustment have been investigated, the results may imply that students with giftedness do not necessarily differ from peers regarding that aspect of human development.