International Science Community Association Research Journal of Recent Sciences 2277 - 2502 4 3 2015 March 2 The Factors Affecting Emotional Intelligence of Gifted Children 41 47 EN Zanganeh Mohsen 1 New Castle University School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Zanjan, IRAN Farshid Norouzi 2 Khuram Mushtaque 1 Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology, Karachi, PAKISTAN Kamran Ahsan 2 Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi, PAKISTAN Ahmer Umer 3 Tekei Abdolghader 1 Department of Public Administration, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IRAN Memarzadeh Gholamreza. 2 Reza Najafbeigi 3 Mahdi Mortazavi 1 Department of Management, Institute of Management and Planning Studies, IRAN Elham Vahedi 2 Department of Executive Master of Business Administration, Alborz, Qazvin, IRAN Zarei Mohammadreza 3 Dept. of Master of Business Administration, Science and Culture University, IRAN Farzane Hemmatian 4 Dept. Entrepreneurship Management, Tehran University, IRAN Razavi Maryam 1 Department of industrial management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IRAN AbbasToloie Eshlaghy 2 Gizem SAYGILI 1 Faculty of Education, Süleyman Demirel University, TURKEY > Research Paper 2014 1 6 2015 March 2 In this study it is aimed to identify the factors affecting emotional intelligence of gifted children. 27 female and 76 male gifted children whose ages range from 8 years to 13 years attending Sivas Science and Arts Centre in 2013 participated in this study voluntarily. In this study which is a descriptive study appropriate to general survey method, Emotional Intelligence Scale adapted to Turkish by Göçet was used as data collection tool. In the analysis of the data obtained, One-Sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, independent t test, One Way ANOVA, correlation analysis were applied and descriptive statistics (means and frequencies) were utilized. As a result, there is no significant difference between the variables of gifted children's age, gender, doing sports and educational status of parents and emotional intelligence features (p& Copyright@ International Science Community Association 65533;0.05) whereas it is ascertained that there is a significant difference between the children playing and not playing computer games in terms of their emotional intelligence levels (p0.05). In this context it can be said that playing computer games affects emotional intelligence negatively.