Negative Self-Criticism and Refusal to Communicate and their Relationship to Irrational thoughts among Gifted Students at King Abdullah II Schools of Excellence

The present study aimed to verify the existence of a correlational relationship to negative self-criticism and refusal to communicate with irrational thoughts among gifted students in King Abdullah II Schools of Excellence. To achieve the objectives of the study, the negative Self-Criticism Scale by (Gilbert, Clark, Hempel, Miles, & Irons, 2004) was translated, And the translation of refusal to communicate scale through: (Nafees, &Juhan, 2018; Huff, S., Anderson, Adamsons, & Tambling, 2017), and the translation of the scale of irrational thoughts (Gavita, & Duta, 2013). The psychometric properties of the validity, reliability and applying the scales on a sample of students in King Abdullah II Schools of Excellence. The sample consisted of (247) students. The results of the study concluded that there was a moderate level of negative self-criticism, refusal to communicate and irrational thoughts among gifted students, and that there was a positive correlation between negative self-criticism and refusal to communicate Irrational thoughts.