Investigation of the parents' irrational beliefs and parental self-efficacy of parents of gifted children

In this research, it is invesitgated whether there is a relationship between gifted children's parents' irrational beliefs and parental self-efficacy. Additively, examined whether there is a differences between gifted children's parents' irrational beliefs and parental self-efficacy, according to some variables. Research model is carried out in survey research model from scientific research methods. The sample group,in the 2018-2019 academic year, it consists of the parents of primary and secondary school students registered to Sahinbey Science and Art Center in Gaziantep. Sample consists 147 mothers and 126 fathers totally 273 members. Personal information form, Parent Irrational Beliefs Scale and Parental Self-Efficacy Scale were used as data collections in this research. Research variables (gender, job status, level of child school, level of students' grades, income, graduation status) were collected. In analysis of obtaned data "statistical program for social science (SPSS)" package program was used. T-test (for unrelated samples), analysis variance for independent samples (ANOVA) and Kruskal Wallis H were used. To determine whether there is a relationship between gifted childrens' parents' irrational beliefs and parental self-efficacy simple lineer correlation was used and showed in Pearson Correlation Matrix. At the end of research, there were positive and low level of significant relationship found between irraftional beliefs and parental self-efficacy of gifted childrens' parents. When Parental Irrational Beliefs Scale is examined, significant differences were found in the "Expectations" sub-dimension according to gender and graduation status and significant differences were found in the "Perfectionism" sub-dimension according to the graduation status. When the variables were examined according to Parental Self-Efficacy Scale, significant differences were found according to gender and working status. Findings were discussed in the light of literature.