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The primary goal of this study was to point out the ‘Anger Management Strategies’ used by gifted students. The sample of the study consisted of 407 secondary school students selected randomly from Jordan and Kuwait by using stratified sampling technique. The number of Jordanian students who participated in this study was 210, 106 male and 104 female enrolled in King Abdullah II Schools for Distinction in both Amman and Irbid Governorates. The number of Kuwaiti students who took part in this study was 197, 105 male and 92 female selected from Mubarak Al-Kabeer educational zone. To achieve the purpose of the study, the researchers used the translated version of (Anne et al., 2007) scale for ‘Anger Management Strategies’. This scale was translated into Arabic by Alkhawaldah & Jaradat (2014). The researchers made the necessary statistical treatment for the entire scale sections including, arithmetic mean, standard deviations, analysis of variance, etc. The findings of the study showed that the majority of gifted students in both Jordan and Kuwait used the ‘Avoidance Strategy’ while dealing with anger management. This strategy was ranked the first and students’ responses got the highest arithmetic average on this item, whereas ‘Mediation Strategy’ was ranked the last by students. Also, the results revealed that there were statistically significant differences at the level of (α ≤ 0.05) due to variable of student’s gender in favor of males while the results showed no statistical differences at the level of (α ≤ 0.05) attributed to variables such as citizenship and the interaction between gender and nationality.(Published Abstract)