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Unal, Naciye Ece; Sak, Ugur – High Ability Studies, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative research was to explore how gifted girls perceived and coped with loneliness and the relationship between loneliness and giftedness from their perspectives. Participants were four middle-school gifted girls. A loneliness scale was used to select gifted students with a high level of loneliness experience. In-depth…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Females, Academically Gifted, Psychological Patterns
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Yu, Hsiao-Ping; Jen, Enyi – High Ability Studies, 2021
The purpose of this research is to investigate the relations between gender roles, career self-efficacy, and career development of STEM gifted girls in high schools and universities in Taiwan, from a developmental perspective. It includes two studies. In Study 1, 473 gifted girls from eight high schools in Taiwan participated, and, based on a…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Self Efficacy, Academically Gifted, Females
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Fugate, C. Matthew; Gentry, Marcia – High Ability Studies, 2016
The manifestation of ADHD in girls who are gifted can place strains on motivation and academic performance as they enter their middle school years. The purpose of this collective case study research was to examine the lived experiences of five girls who are gifted with ADHD in order to gain an understanding of the array of coping mechanisms used…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Females, Comorbidity
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Holm, Kristiina; Nokelainen, Petri; Tirri, Kirsi – High Ability Studies, 2009
This study examined the intercultural sensitivity of Finnish 12-16-year-old secondary school students (N=549) with a 23-item Intercultural Sensitivity Scale Questionnaire (ICSSQ). The ICSSQ is based on Bennett's (1993) Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS), which is a conceptual tool to situate certain reactions towards cultural…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Females, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
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Stanley, Julian C. – High Ability Studies, 2005
The antecedents for the four regional annual talent searches for boys and girls who reason exceptionally well mathematically and/or verbally began in 1971 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, with the creation of the "Study of mathematically precocious youth" under the direction of the author of this article, its…
Descriptors: Universities, Private Colleges, Foreign Countries, Females
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Ziegler, Albert; Stoeger, Heidrun – High Ability Studies, 2004
This report is an evaluation of an attributional retraining intervention conceptualized to promote girls gifted in the natural sciences. The attributional retraining was based on a modeling technique, and conceptualized for ninth-grade chemistry students attending a college preparatory high school (German Gymnasium). The aim of the training was to…
Descriptors: Females, Retraining, Models, Gender Differences
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Endepohls-Ulpe, Martina; Ruf, Heike – High Ability Studies, 2005
Which are the characteristics leading teachers to judge a child as "gifted"? To answer this question 384 German primary school teachers were asked to describe a gifted child in their own words as well as on a 90 item rating scale. A total of 192 teachers, who declared they had never instructed a gifted child, described a fictitious…
Descriptors: Talent Identification, Low Achievement, Stereotypes, Rating Scales