The Relationship between General Health and Positivity among High School Students in Gifted Schools in Mako in the Academic Years of 2024-2025

Abstract

Introduction and Aim: Positivity plays an important role in improving other academic characteristics of students. Therefore, the aim of this study was investigate the relationship between general health and positivity among high school students in gifted schools.

Methodology: The present study was a descriptive from type of correlation. The population of this research was all high school students of gifted schools in Mako County in the academic years of 2024-2025, which 110 people of them were selected as samples using stratified randomly sampling method. The instruments of this study included the Scaled Version of the General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg & Hillier, 1979) and Positive Automatic Cognition Questionnaire (Ingram & Wisnicki, 1988). The data of this study were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regression with enter model methods in SPSS-25 software.

Findings: The results of this study showed that general health and all four of its components including somatic symptoms, anxiety and insomnia, social dysfunction, and severe depression had a positive and significant relationship with positivity among high school students in gifted schools (P<0.001). Also, general health and its components played a significant role in predicting positivity in them (P<0.001).

Conclusion: According to the results of this study, to improving positivity among high school students in gifted schools can provied the ground for improving their general health.