The purpose of this study was to investigate in what ways gifted education programs
were beneficial to economically disadvantaged gifted students, and analyzes the relationship
between these student's satisfaction in gifted programs and their sense of self-efficacy. The
subjects of this study were 173 economically disadvantaged gifted preschoolers and
elementary school students in lower grades, enrolled in gifted education center attached in a
university. The results indicated that student satisfaction increased in the disadvantaged
gifted students who had access to gifted programs (16.7%). In this case, the preschoolers
showed a steeper increase in their satisfaction (19.6%) than that of the elementary school
students (4.3%). Also, there was a significant positive correlation between student satisfaction
and self-efficacy (r=.480), which was manifested more clearly in the preschoolers (r=.540)
than in the elementary school students (r=.358). These results suggest that gifted programs
are expected to promote self-efficacy within economically disadvantaged gifted students.