The study aimed to identify the level of psychological stress and the level of cognitive motivation among gifted students in King Abdullah II schools for excellence. To achieve the goals of the study, the analytical correlative descriptive analytical approach was adopted, where a random sample of gifted students was selected in the fifth and sixth grades schools in King Abdullah II schools for excellence in Amman, with a total of 120 male and female students.The study found that students experience an average degree of psychological stress and that these pressures were similar in males and females in the fifth and sixth grades. The findings also revealed that gifted children have a high degree of cognitive motivation, with statistically significant differences in favor of males at this level.