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This study examined the self-perceived intelligences (multiple intelligences, emotional intelligence, and successful intelligence) of 498 Chinese gifted students in Hong Kong. Based on the associations among perceived intelligence scores, three dimensions could be distinguished to describe giftedness and could be interpreted as global giftedness, socioemotional giftedness, and artistic giftedness. Using profiles of perceived intelligences, students could be classified as falling into four clusters of supersmart students, socioemotionally gifted students, modest gifted students, and artistically gifted students. The supersmart students engaged in more activities related to leadership and creativity than the other clusters of students, with the modest gifted students reporting the least engagement. The supersmart students, however, were rated by teachers as less emotionally mature, showing less concern for others, and more likely to have behavioral conduct problems than the socioemotionally gifted students. Implications of the findings for conceptualizing giftedness and working with different groups of gifted students are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)

This study explored the relationships among IQ, perceptions of giftedness, and self-concepts in a sample of 116 Chinese junior secondary school students (aged 12-16 yrs) in Hong Kong. These students, nominated by their schools to join the university gifted programs, were assessed on their IQ, global and domain-specific self-concepts, as well as their perceptions of their own giftedness in terms of their concern for feeling different, their critical attitude in evaluating their own performance, and their experience of high expectation to achieve from their parents. The findings indicated that in general the ways students perceived their giftedness affected differentially global self-worth and specific self-concept domains. While difference concern and critical evaluation affected students' specific self-concepts adversely, high parental expectation had a more positive influence. Self-concept domains related to social acceptance and friendship issues were most strongly and adversely affected. Implications of the findings for interventions to enhance the self-esteem of gifted students through restructuring their perceptions of giftedness are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Six hundred and thirty-nine Chinese primary and secondary gifted students were assessed on their adjustment problems using the revised Student Adjustment Problems Inventory (SAPI-24). Students' responses indicated that intense involvement, perfectionism, unchallenging schoolwork, multipotentiality, and parental expectations could be relatively common problems among gifted students. Less salient was the problem of poor interpersonal relationships. While the notion linking giftedness and vulnerability to adjustment problems was not borne out by the data with traditional IQ measure, specific adjustment problems were found to be associated with specific intelligences, which conferred both increased and reduced vulnerability dependent on the adjustment problems involved. Implications of the findings for future research into the complex relationships between adjustment problems and giftedness or multiple intelligences are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)

This study examined the relationships between components of leadership giftedness and multiple intelligences among 510 Chinese gifted students in Hong Kong. These students perceived their strengths in intrapersonal, interpersonal and verbal-linguistic intelligences, and their weaknesses in bodily-kinesthetic and naturalist intelligences. They also rated themselves higher on leadership flexibility and goal orientation than on leadership self-efficacy. In predicting the three leadership components, intrapersonal and verbal-linguistic intelligences emerged as common and significant predictors, suggesting that self-reflection and self-management skills as well as a good command of language use were important in leadership. Other significant predictors such as logical-mathematical intelligence for leadership self-efficacy as well as goal orientation and interpersonal intelligence for leadership flexibility suggested that critical thinking might be important for the sense of confidence or efficacy and the vision of goals, whereas relational or people skills might be important for the openness to different options. Students who were classified high on both verbal-linguistic intelligence and personal intelligences, high on one and low on the other, and low on both were found to be generally high, medium and low on all three leadership components, respectively. Implications of the findings for inferring different levels of components of leadership giftedness from specific intelligences and for developing leadership training programs are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)

This study explored the relationships among giftedness, adjustment problems, and psychological distress in a sample of 215 Chinese junior secondary school students (aged 12-15 yrs) in Hong Kong. These students, nominated by their schools to join the university gifted programs, were assessed on their giftedness as reflected in scores of nonverbal reasoning and divergent thinking, on their adjustment problems in 6 areas, and on their psychological distress in terms of 5 specific symptom areas. The findings indicated that divergent thinking, unlike nonverbal reasoning, had a notable influence on specific psychological symptoms. Students' concerns with interpersonal relationships, as well as the recognition of their abilities, and their concerns for being different emerged as the 2 most important adjustment problems predicting specific psychological symptoms. The implications of the findings for preventive interventions to help gifted students in the promotion of their psychological well-being are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

This study sought to assess the viability of the use of a self-report checklist identifying different aspects of giftedness in a sample of 192 Chinese secondary students (aged 12–18 yrs old) from a multiple intelligences perspective. For comparison, IQ, creativity, and leadership characteristics of these students were also assessed using conventional standardized measures. Data on academic achievement in Chinese language, English language, and mathematics were obtained from school records. While students perceived the 7 intelligences as relatively distinct abilities, these self-estimates of the 7 intelligences did not generally predict the conventional measures, suggesting that the 7 intelligences and the conventional measures provided independent and possibly complementary information on aspects of giftedness. The implications of the development of a profile of strengths and weaknesses of students from a multiple intelligences perspective for subsequent identification and programming are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

The author illustrates the importance of honoring cultural differences as they lead to different conceptions and experiences of what giftedness is, how it develops and how it is best fostered. His chapter on lay conceptions of gifted education in China provides a window on the kinds of fresh conceptions that can be useful to educators and psychologists everywhere. He concludes his chapter and this thematic section by discussing the Chinese practice of ren (benevolence), suggesting the integration of a socio-emotional component into gifted education by fostering the self-cultivation that transforms and changes one's beliefs, attitudes, and values, and leads to a deep concern for the well-being of others. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: book)

In the discourse on the intellectual styles of exceptional learners, three specific issues readily present themselves. The first issue is the diversity of exceptional learners. By exceptional learners, one refers to a heterogeneous group of learners that includes, among others, learners with dyslexia, learners with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learners with autism spectrum disorder, and highly able or gifted learners. The question is whether there are distinct intellectual styles or profiles of styles for distinct groups of exceptional learners. The second issue has to do with the connection between abilities and styles. Perhaps what set exceptional learners apart from normal nonexceptional learners are their profiles of marked strengths and weaknesses, which are likely to correspond to their areas of giftedness and deficits. It is likely that there is a possibly stronger ability-style connection among exceptional learners, given that exceptionality is often defined in terms of abilities (talents) or disabilities (deficits). The question is whether or not exceptional learners are predisposed to prefer specific intellectual styles in line with their abilities and disabilities. The third issue is the role of intellectual styles in the teaching and learning of exceptional learners. Given the possibly stronger ability-style connection, the question is whether or not instruction matching intellectual styles of exceptional learners should assume greater importance in the effective teaching and learning of these more able and more vulnerable learners. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

Globalization in economy and in education has highlighted the importance of developing top students for global competition in various fields in Asian countries (Ibata-Arens, 2012). In response to the increasing demand for national talents, many Asian countries have actively moved to develop some form of gifted education. Generally, Western conceptions of giftedness, largely the Euro-American perspectives, provide the theoretical basis for the development of educational programs, procedures for the identification of gifted children, program delivery, and methods of instruction (Wu, Cho, & Munandar, 2000). However, Asian countries differ among themselves in the pace of gifted education development, and the policies and actual practices of gifted program provision. Globalization has also brought about the realization of the diversity of cultures and contexts, including the different cultural conceptions of giftedness. Although it is tempting to define a homogeneous Asian conception of giftedness, it soon becomes apparent that it is not possible nor is it desirable. Asians come from some 50 countries in five geographical regions: Central Asia, Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Southeastern Asia, and Western Asia. Historically, each of these regions has pursued very different social and political paths, and countries in these regions are not necessarily homogenous ethnically. Although some countries, such as Japan and South Korea, are relatively homogeneous ethnically, others, such as India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, have several distinct ethnic groups. Despite the amazing diversity, when the development of gifted education is considered, attention has often been drawn to those countries where a period of sustained economic prosperity has brought about significant investment in education by their governments or the private sectors. These countries or regions include China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea in Eastern Asia, and India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand in Southern and Southeastern Asia. The focus of this chapter will be on the development of gifted education in these 11 Asian countries or regions, especially those in Eastern Asia. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)