Strategies used by intellectually gifted students to cope with stress during their participation in a high school international baccalaureate program

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 127-137

  Shaunessy, Elizabeth ^a   Suldo, Shannon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional development; High school; Qualitative methodologies; Social development; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749305089     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: 19349041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0016986209355977     Document Type: Article

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