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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"gifted adolescents"”.
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Underachieving Profoundly Gifted Adolescents
<p>Underachieving Profoundly Gifted Adolescents is a phenomenological study that explores the lived experiences of five underachieving profoundly gifted adolescents. Profoundly gifted individuals are those whose IQ scores are at the 99.9th percentile. This study was a means to explore factors that …
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Social Intelligence: Social Skills Competence and Emotional Intelligence in Gifted Adolescents
… debate as regards to the social intelligence of gifted youth. One view holds that the gifted are often maladjusted (Chronbach, 1960; Hollingworth, 1942). The contrary view is that they are more likely to be well adjusted, with overall above average social and emotional intelligence (Allen, 2000; …
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Effects of Social Support on the Social Self-Concepts of Gifted Adolescents
… social support and the social self-concepts of gifted adolescents. Participants include 245 gifted students who had completed the fifth through the tenth grade during the previous academic year. Social self-concept was measured using the Self-Description Questionnaire II (Marsh, 1990). Social …
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Academically gifted adolescents transferring to an independent gifted school: Effects on academic identity
<p>Four gifted adolescents (2 males and 2 females) explore experiences transferring from multilevel schools to an independent gifted school from low- and high-income school districts in this phenomenological study. Semi-structured interviews inform this study demonstrating how changes in school …
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THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG OVEREXCITABILITY, SOCIAL COPING, AND BODY IMAGE DISSATISFACTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR GIFTED ADOLESCENTS
Adolescents confront a plethora of physical and emotional changes, especially those alterations surrounding puberty. Body image disturbances have become commonplace with high school students, and school personnel seem to have had little success in fighting this problem. Teenagers with body …
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A Study of Family Psycho-Social Environment and Its Relationship to Academic Achievement in Gifted Adolescents
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Counseling-consultation with gifted adolescents and their parents: effects on self acceptance and adjustment of the gifted
… personal adjustment, and social adjustment of gifted adolescents. Subjects, age 13 to 16, were identified as gifted based upon a performance of 120 IQ or above on the Raven Advanced Progressive Matrices. The 89 subjects were assigned to one of four groups and the groups were randomly assigned …
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The effect of training in computer-aided design on the spatial visualization ability in selected gifted adolescents
… the spatial visualization abilities of selected gifted adolescents. The following hypotheses was tested: Subjects receiving instruction in CAD will show improvement in spatial visualization ability, as measured by the Revised Minnesota Paper Form Board (RMPFB) test. when compared to the subjects …
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Emotional Intelligence in Adolescents: How it Relates to Giftedness
… of emotional intelligence and how it relates to gifted adolescents. Until recently, it was not possible to test the theory of emotional intelligence. With the advent of the BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory and BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory: Youth Version, it became possible for the first …
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Gifted adolescents : social comparisons and changes in self- concept on entering a rigourous academic program in a residential environment
This study utilized a pluralistic approach to examine self-concepts and social comparison processes of students entering the Indiana Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Humanities-a residential program for high school juniors and seniors. Following the Big-Fish-Little-Pond-Effect (BFLPE) theory …
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A Retrospective Study of Gay Gifted, Young Adult Males' Perceptions of Giftedness and Suicide
… were asked to report their experiences as adolescents. The primary focus of the study was to discover how gay gifted adolescents dealt with issues of suicide and suicidal ideation. Participants were selected using a purposive sampling technique. Four groups of participants were chosen with …
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MMPI-A structural summary approach : characteristics of gifted adolecents
… (MVIPI-A) in a sample of 428 gifted and talented adolescents to validate use of this approach with a gifted population. The MMPIA structural summary was developed to help simplify interpretation of the 69 scales and subscales that are produced with a full administration of this …