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This study aimed to examine the relation between creative characteristics  and family and social  problems  among "Gifted and non-Gifted" students, as the study aimed to explore the impact of the two variables of the study (sex, character) on creative characteristics and both family and social problems among gifted students compared with non gifted students. The sample of the study consisted of (40) students, males and females, among tenth grade divided into (20) males and (20) females from those registered in King Abdullah II Schools for Excellence. Non-gifted students sample consisted from (40) students, males and females, in tenth grade, whereas (20) males and (20) females registered in two public schools in Salt city for the year 2010/2011.The total of study sample was (80) students, males and females, from both categories gifted and non-gifted. Renzulli Scale for creative characteristics and Abu Jrease family and social problems checklist was used as well as the Pearson Correlation Coefficient and T-test to examine the Hypotheses of the study. (Two way ANOVA) was used to identify the statistical significance of the differences. The results of the study showed that there was a nominal negative relationship between creative characteristics and both family and social problems among gifted and non-gifted students, but gifted students have higher levels of creative characteristics more than their non-gifted partners. The study also indicated that there was no statistical significant in creative characteristics between gifted students attributed to the (sex). Average rates of study sample on family problems indicated that there were statistical significant differences attributed to the variable (gifted-non-gifted) in favor of gifted students. The study also indicated that there were no statistical significant differences between the Average rates of the sample of the study on family problems attributed to the interaction between the two variables (character, sex).