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Social Acceptance of High-Ability Youth: Multiple Perspectives and Contextual Influences
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Verschueren, Karine; Lavrijsen, Jeroen; Weyns, Tessa; Ramos, Alicia; De Fraine, Bieke – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2019
Peer relationships form a key developmental context. The current study investigated differences in peer acceptance between high-ability and average-ability youth, from the perspectives of teachers, peers, and students. Relying on the person-group similarity model, we also tested whether high-ability students' acceptance would depend on the peer…
Descriptors: Gifted, Context Effect, Peer Acceptance, Comparative Analysis
Is Being Gifted Always an Advantage? Peer Relations and Self-Concept of Gifted Students
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Košir, Katja; Horvat, Marina; Aram, Urška; Jurinec, Nina – High Ability Studies, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences between identified gifted adolescents and adolescents not identified as gifted in terms of social acceptance and self-concept (peer relations, academic, and general). In addition, we aimed to investigate the differences between two groups of students identified according to different…
Descriptors: Gifted, Peer Relationship, Self Concept, Adolescents
Psychological Adjustment of Creative Children: Perspectives from Self, Peer and Teacher
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Li, Wing Ling; Poon, Jelena C. Y.; Tong, Toby M. Y.; Lau, Sing – Educational Psychology, 2013
Previous research in the literature on the relationships between creativity and psychological adjustment tended to use only one or two sources of creativity assessment and focus on a few aspects of adjustment. To examine creative children's psychological adjustment more thoroughly, this exploratory study assessed children's creativity from…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Elementary School Students, Creativity, Scores
Gender Issues in Gifted Achievement: Are Girls Making Inroads While Boys Fall Behind?
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Rimm, Sylvia B. – Parenting for High Potential, 2015
School and life achievement patterns for girls and women differ from those of boys and men. While girls have made dramatic progress in school, they need to be inspired to connect to lifelong achievement. Both research and clinical work at the Ohio-based Family Achievement Clinic find that more boys than girls underachieve in school. There is much…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Gifted, Academic Achievement, Gender Differences
Social Understanding of High-Ability Children in Middle and Late Childhood
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Boor-Klip, Henrike J.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; van Hell, Janet G. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2014
Despite its importance in social development, social understanding has hardly been studied in high-ability children. This study explores differences in social understanding between children in high-ability and regular classrooms, specifically theory of mind (ToM) and perception accuracy, as well as associations between individual characteristics…
Descriptors: Social Development, Gifted, Children, Comparative Analysis
The Case of a Self-Contained Elementary Classroom for the Gifted: Student, Teacher, and Parent Perceptions of Existing versus Desired Teaching-Learning Aspects
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Vidergor, Hava E.; Azar Gordon, Lea – Roeper Review, 2015
This study examined whether a self-contained gifted classroom meets the needs of its learners. Considering the existing and desired aspects, as perceived by students, teachers, and parents, it offers a unique lens forming a holistic in-depth view of the self-contained classroom. Forty-two participants took part in this study: 20 students, 15…
Descriptors: Gifted, Elementary School Students, Self Contained Classrooms, Educational Environment