ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Psychology in Education
Psychometric Properties of the Gifted Identity Scale for Saudi Arabia Adolescents Using Construct Modeling
Provisionally accepted
- Taif University, Ta'if, Saudi Arabia
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The current study aims to validate the psychometric properties of the Gifted Identity Scale for adolescents using construct modeling. The study included (213) gifted Saudi students with a mean age of 15 years and 9 months, selected via stratified sampling from five government schools in Taif governorate. The research tool is the Gifted Identity Scale, based on Mahoney's (1998) theoretical dimensions (affirmation, validation, affiliation, affinity), which was developed by Alharbi et al. (2023). Its 36-item Likert-scale (5-point) content was validated by six experts (psychologists and gifted education specialists) and refined through their feedback. The study showed the reliability and validity of the Gifted Identity Scale for adolescents using Construct Modeling, demonstrating strong goodness-of-fit, internal consistency, and significant correlations between scale items and their dimensions. Furthermore, the analysis identified differentially weighted correlations among the scale's four dimensions, demonstrating their interconnected role in adolescent gifted identity development within the studied population.
Keywords: Education programs, gifted education, gifted identity, Mahoney's model, Structural modeling
Received: 16 Oct 2025; Accepted: 05 Dec 2025.
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* Correspondence: Thuraia Jobair Altalhi
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