Self-Perception of Giftedness in Adolescents Selected for Gifted Education Programmes

Giftedness and gifted education: the need for a paradigm change

Depression and self-actualization of gifted adolescents.

Administered the Multiscore Depression Inventory and the Personal Orientation Inventory to 248 academically gifted adolescents drawn from across the state of South Carolina to participate in a select program. Low but significant correlations were noted among several of the scales. Factor analysis of the scales of both instruments resulted in five factors for females and six for males. In both s...

Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education: A Proposed Direction Forward Based on Psychological Science.

For nearly a century, scholars have sought to understand, measure, and explain giftedness. Succeeding theories and empirical investigations have often built on earlier work, complementing or sometimes clashing over conceptions of talent or contesting the mechanisms of talent development. Some have even suggested that giftedness itself is a misnomer, mistaken for the results of endless practice ...

A decade comparison: Self-concept of gifted and non-gifted adolescents

The study explores the link between general social environment and self-concept, and giftedness and self-concept. A total of 135 high school and 64 university students with an average age of 16 years from China took part in the research, consisting of four groups: gifted and non-gifted adolescents of Year 1993, and gifted and non-gifted adolescents of Year 2003. Comparison between the groups ha...

IT-Giftedness in Children and Adolescents

IT-giftedness represents abilities related with widely differing uses of information technologies (IT). Children and adolescents often exhibit surprising abilities in the use of computers. At the same time they face educational and psychological problems. We hypothesize that typical adolescent problems with IT will be lessened if a dynamic approach to giftedness is applied. We analyze the intel...