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The purpose of this study is to compare the emotional intelligence of the gifted elementary students inscience and general students. To this study, the emotional intelligence test designed by Moon(1999) wasconducted to 111 elementary gifted students and 418 students of general class. The results of this studywere as follows: First, the gifted students achieved the highest average in the sectionII (emotionalfacilitation of thinking) and in the sectionIII (understanding and analyzing emotion), while general studentsshowed the highest average in the sectionI (empathy). This presented that the gifted students were inthe higher level of meta-emotional intelligence. Second, regarding the gender of the gifted, there wasno significant difference in the gifted and general students. But the gifted boys seemed to be higherlevel than general boy students, while there was no significant difference between two groups in theemotional intelligence of female students.