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Direct linkCook, Fallon; Hippmann, Danielle; Omerovic, Emina – Gifted and Talented International, 2020
Prior research provides mixed findings on the prevalence of sleep problems and mental health difficulties experienced by gifted children, with findings largely based on studies of small clinical samples. In a large, prospective, longitudinal, community cohort, the current study aimed to examine parent report of child sleep problems at ages 1, 2, 3…
Descriptors: Sleep, Child Health, Mental Health, Children
Zeidner, Moshe; Shani-Zinovich, Inbal – High Ability Studies, 2015
This study compares facets of self-concept in gifted and non-identified Israeli adolescent students. The self-concept mean score profile of gifted vs. non-selected Israeli students was significantly different, with gifted students reporting higher mean levels of academic self-concept, but lower mean levels of social, personal, and physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gifted, Self Concept, Adolescents
Willings, David – Gifted Education International, 1994
This article recounts the case of a gifted French adolescent girl whose life, characterized by family problems and lack of support, resulted in her tragic suicide at the age of 17. (DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Emotional Problems, Family Problems
Peer reviewedChan, David W. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2002
A study involving 215 Chinese junior secondary school students in Hong Kong found divergent thinking had a notable influence on specific psychological symptoms. Students' concerns with interpersonal relationships, as well as ability recognition, and concerns for being different emerged as the most important adjustment problems predicting specific…
Descriptors: Divergent Thinking, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Problems, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedGagne, Francoys; Gagnier, Nadia – Roeper Review, 2004
How well do early school entrants adjust socio-affectively when compared to their regularly admitted peers? Despite numerous publications on the subject, much controversy remains, mainly because of methodologically fragile studies. To assess the impact of a new early entrance policy in Quebec, 36 kindergarten and 42 Grade 2 teachers who had at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Integration, Gifted, Academic Achievement
Peer reviewedChan, David W. – High Ability Studies, 2003
A study involving 639 Chinese gifted students (grades 4-12) found that intense emotional involvement, perfectionism, unchallenging schoolwork, multipotentiality, and parental expectations were relatively common adjustment problems. Poor interpersonal relationships were not. Results also indicated that conventional intelligence increased…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Problems, Foreign Countries
Download full textMendaglio, Sal; Tillier, William – 1992
Kazimierz Dabrowski's theory of positive disintegration is applied to counseling gifted students having emotional and adjustment problems. According to the theory, a central feature of psychological growth is a series of disintegrations--progressive contradictions and conflicts that arise from a person's experience of life. Such conflicts and…
Descriptors: Counseling Psychology, Counseling Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Adjustment
