Stress and its associated psychosocial factors among Malaysian gifted students

• Main Authors: Ali, Adli, Z., M. Amizul, H. A. R., Hanissa, A. S., Amira, L., Kexin, A., Anizah, Ishak, Shareena, J., Rohana
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2013
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/65068/1/ICYOUTH2013-20.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/65068/

Introduction-The gifted students in Malaysia are housed together in a residential school which provides a competitive, yet stressful environment. The high expectations for academic achievement coupled with perpetual public expectations to be the “future elites” in the society could have made them vu...