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  • Gifted children may need assistance developing a positive self-concept if they are to reach their full potential. Parents play a role in shaping and influencing the attitudes and values of their children. Having a gifted child may affect the self-perceptions of the parents and the child. This study examined the relationships between specific self-perceptions of gifted children and their parents. This study included 71 families (subjects = 211), with follow-up interviews of five families (subjects = 16). The students were between 9 and 11 years old, identified as gifted, and lived with both parents. Parents and children completed a demographic information form and a questionnaire about the characteristics of giftedness. Children also completed the Self-Perception Profile for Children (Harter, 1985), and parents completed the Adult Self-Perception Profile (Messer & Harter, 1986). For the purposes of this study, a parent was classified as gifted if she or he met certain criteria. Students reported higher self-concepts than the norming samples on the scholastic, social, behavioral, and global dimensions. Mothers and fathers tended to rate themselves lower than the norming samples. Females rated themselves lower on the athletic subscale than males, and higher on the behavioral conduct subscale. Mothers and fathers classified as gifted rated themselves higher than did nongifted parents. Because the range of self-perception scores was negatively skewed, few correlations between groups were found. Characteristics of giftedness data were collected in the areas of advanced cognitive development, persistence and motivation, standards of excellence, perspective, mental processing ability, and social and emotional qualities. The rate of agreement between parents and their children was calculated. Gifted parents had higher rates of agreement with their children than did nongifted parents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

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