The creative environment as perceived by gifted and ordinary students and its relationship to patterns of super arousal

 
The present research was conducted to investigate the creative environment as perceived by gifted and ordinary students and its relationship to over-excitabilities among secondary school students in the State of Kuwait, and to determine the differences between students' estimates of the creative environment and over-excitabilities, according to the variables of student classification and gender. To achieve the objectives of the research, the descriptive correlative approach was used by applying the two measures of creative environment and over-excitabilities, to a stratified random sample of 336 male and female students in the secondary stage (176 gifted and 160 ordinaries). The results showed that there was no statistically significant difference between the students' estimates of the creative environment, due to the gender variable. Whereas, the results showed that there was a statistically significant difference between the students’ estimates of the creative environment, due to the student’s classification variable, and the results showed a statistically significant difference in favor of males in the estimates of intellectual and emotional a stratified random, and the results showed that there were statistically significant differences in favor of the talented in the estimates of the five over-excitabilities. Finally, the creative environment was associated with statistically significant positive relationship over-excitabilities between the gifted and the ordinary, and the relationship between the creative environment and emotional arousal among the gifted was higher than it is among the ordinary ones.