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  • Reviews the book, Educational psychology and developmental psychology, Vol. 55: Professional interests in highly gifted adolescents by Jörn R. Sparfeldt (2006). Highly gifted children and adolescents often are seen as being at risk for underachievement or other developmental problems, including diffuse professional interests because they have too many options to choose among. However, giftedness might also help in developing professional interests. The existing literature on possible links between giftedness and professional interests suffers from methodological problems such as selective samples or missing comparison groups. Sparfeldt's peer-reviewed monograph thus fills an empirical gap. The author used data from the Marburg Highly Gifted Project. Most comparisons were drawn between 107 gifted and 107 average adolescents who were identified from a large sample at grade 3 and confirmed at grade 9, and between 134 highly and 122 normally achieving youths. The results showed few differences between gifted and high-achieving, respectively, youth and the comparison groups. Gifted adolescents had more various general interests, but a clearer profile of professional interests than normally intelligent adolescents. Gifted and highly-achieving youths had stronger intellectual and cultural professional interests, but valued self-actualization, leadership, and safety in the profession less than the comparison groups. In conclusion, gifted adolescents appear not as an at-risk group, falsifying the common cliché. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

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