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  • The purpose of this study was to explore the use of the Overexcitabilities Questionnaire (OEQ) for identifying gifted African American students at the elementary level. Dabrowski's (1964, 1970, 1972, 1991) theory of emotional development provided the theoretical framework for the study. His theory addresses the relationship between cognition and emotion, and emphasizes characteristics that are prominent in the literature on giftedness. The OEQ (Lysy and Piechowski, 1983) was used to assess the five types of overexcitabilities--psychomotor, sensual, imaginational, intellectual, and emotional. The research questions guiding this study were: (1) Can the overexcitabilities, as measured by the OEQ, predict the membership according to the South Carolina Weighted Profile for the three groups--gifted, neargifted, and non-gifted? (2) Does the OEQ identify more African American students as gifted than the traditional identification method? (3) How do the patterns of OEs (profiles) compare between or among the various groups in the study? The subjects were 117 fourth and fifth grade students in four school districts in South Carolina. By ethnicity, 72 were African American and 45 Caucasian. By classification, 48 were gifted; 30, near-gifted; and 39 non-gifted. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation analyses and predictive discriminant analyses (PDA). The results of the analyses indicated that emotional and intellectual overexcitabilities could reliably predict group membership although not much better than would be predicted by chance. More African Americans were identified for gifted by the OEQ, than traditional methods, in fact, the OEQ seems to favor African American males and females and Caucasian females. The comparisons of mean OE scores for the various groups showed some surprising trends. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)

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