Poster

Poster 25: Introducing an Instrument for Research: The Social Experience of Gifted Students Scale

Thursday, November 13, 2025

5:15 PM - 6:30 PM ET

Location: Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12

Jennifer Riedl Cross

Research Professor
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana, United States
TC

Tracy L. Cross

Dean, College of Education & Human Development
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana, United States
Colm O'Reilly (he/him/his)

Director, Centre for Talented Youth Ireland
Dublin City University
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Serife Bilgic-Erdem

Research Assistant
Hacetteppe University
Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
Leeanne Hinch (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor, School of Inclusive and Special Education, DCU & Academic Programme Manager, Centre for Talented Youth Ireland
Dublin City University
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Sakhavat Mammadov

Associate Professor
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia, United States

Short Description: Gifted students have unique social experiences associated with differences from peers in thinking and achieving. The Social Experience of Gifted Students Scale (SEGSS) is a research tool developed to explore the frequency of social experiences related to their abilities. This session describes its empirical foundations and four studies highlighting relationships of social experiences with personality, mental health, and school connectedness.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to describe the history of research in gifted students’ social experiences.
Participants will understand the validation process of a new instrument for quantitative study of gifted students’ social experiences – the Social Experiences of Gifted Students Scale (SEGSS).
Participants will know how they may use the revised SEGSS-R in their own research.