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  • This hypothesis-generating study explored the gender schemata of a select group of 13 gifted male adolescents. Focusing on recent feminist scholarship that has emphasized males' inherently problematic relationship to women and femininity, this study identified the cognitive/developmental and motivational factors facilitating these boys' identification with feminine values. These feminizing influences can be summarized as follows: an identification with a maternal imago; an increased involvement in extrafamilial relationships, especially among opposite-sex peers; and an intellectual perspicacity that rejects patriarchal values. The study also discussed factors that at times impede their internalization of feminine values. Based on the accumulated data, the study generated the following hypotheses to be investigated by further research: (1) Aware of feminist ideology, gifted males construct gender schemata sympathetic with feminist ideology. (2) Gifted male adolescents are strongly motivated to identify with "feminine" values--affectivity and relationality. (3) Although the boys' attachment to the mother inspires an introjection of feminine values, it is in the realm of their reawakened sexuality that deep-seated oedipal and preoedipal fears will resurface and challenge this ideal. (4) Gifted adolescent males, negotiating nontraditional sexualities, are particularly at-risk for feeling anxiety about their sexual and sex-role identities. (5) Gifted adolescent boys have a tendency toward an overintellectualization that can distance them from their own affectivity. (6) Constructing new gender schemata and sexual regimes, these youngsters will be impelled to acknowledge the limits of their own rationalism in achieving an integrated self-concept. Finally, it is suggested that this study's results can broaden and deepen our conceptions of giftedness, gender, and cognition. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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