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  • This research developed the ElemenOE, an instrument designed for use by teachers to measure personality characteristics known as "overexcitabilities" in children ages 4-12. The research describes the overexcitabilities within the context of Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration and makes the case for their use to identify gifted children. Overexcitability refers to an innate supersensitivity to stimuli in any of five different areas: psychomotor, sensual, imaginational, intellectual, and emotional. One good reason for looking at giftedness from the perspective of overexcitabilities is that these overexcitabilities, or OEs, are not tied to academic achievement. Instead, they are the roots of giftedness, leading to behaviors that are indicative of "an advanced and accelerated development of functions within the brain. Such development may express itself in high levels of cognitive, affective, physical sensing, and/or intuitive abilities" (Clark, 1997). Prior instruments used to measure overexcitabilities are problematical for administration to elementary school children, but these problems are circumvented with the ElemenOE. Five scholars of Dabrowski's theory rated an initial 100 items for content validity. Items were eliminated if the raters disagreed on the OE they exemplified or if the raters felt the behaviors were weak indicators of that OE. The 61 remaining items were compiled into a pilot instrument that was used to describe 373 students. Exploratory factor analyses using Varimax rotation found factors that related to the five OEs. Items with loadings of less than .5 were eliminated. In this way, the 61 items of the pilot instrument were reduced to the 30 items used on the ElemenOE. Teachers used the ElemenOE to describe 171 gifted and nonidentified children. A discriminant analysis resulted in one function that significantly discriminated between the groups, with Intellectual and Psychomotor OEs making significant contributions. The ElemenOE classified 76% of gifted students along with 42.7% of non-identified students as having similar OE profiles. These results indicate that the ElemenOE may be useful in identifying gifted students who are missed by traditional identification procedures. Cronbach's alpha, a measure of internal consistency, was .883 for the ElemenOE, and interrater reliability of the total instrument was calculated at .965 using the Spearman-Brown formula. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

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