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While the field of gifted education has relied on educational, cognitive, counseling, behavioral, developmental, and social psychology, the domain of depth psychology offers special insights into giftedness, especially with regard to individuation. The notion of passion, or the thorn (J. S. Piirto, 1999, 2002), the incurable mad spot (F. C. Reynolds 1997, 2001), the acorn (J. Hillman, 1996, 1999), the daimon (C, G. Jung, 1965); the importance of integration through the arts and through dreams; the existence of the collective unconscious; the presence of archetypes; and the transcendent psyche-all have resonance with the binary etymological idea of "gift" as both blessing and poison. Depth psychology offers a way of understanding that is physical, psychological, and spiritual. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)
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This issue of the journal is composed of thought-provoking, dense, complex studies of the psychology of learning among gifted students. Two of the studies are empirical investigations, one is a comprehensive literature review, and two bring together research from a number of studies and variety of fields to argue a point of view, present new theory, or both. In a study the authors proposed and investigated a number of psychological constructs, including state and trait anxiety, coping resources, and extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, in order to understand how they interact in a complex set of relationships to affect students' attitudes about school. Another article provides compelling evidence that motivational giftedness and intellectual giftedness are distinguishable and that motivational giftedness makes an independent contribution to the prediction of academic achievement beyond IQ. These studies address important issues of psychological motivation, achievement, learning, and the nature of cognitive abilities among gifted children. The articles in the journal present and apply some new psychological constructs, such as optimism and motivational giftedness, and clarify some existing constructs, such as nonverbal testing, acceleration, and the widening achievement gap phenomenon. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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Despite efforts to create alternative strategies to identify students from diverse backgrounds, there remains a disproportionately small minority representation in programs for the academically gifted. One reason for this discrepancy may be the effect of teachers' theories of giftedness on how they nominate students for gifted programming. However, very little research has been conducted on teachers' individual theories of giftedness. Inspiration for new ways of conducting research on theories of giftedness may come from research on concept and category formation from the field of cognitive psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)
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The genetic endowment underlying giftedness may operate in a far more complex manner than often expressed in most theoretical accounts of the phenomenon. First, an endowment may be emergenic. That is, a gift may consist of multiple traits (multidimensional) that are inherited in a multiplicative (configurational), rather than an additive (simple) fashion. Second, the endowment may not appear all at once but, rather, will more likely unfold via an epigenetic process. These 2 complications have consequences regarding such aspects of giftedness as the likelihood of early signs, the appearance of early versus late bloomers, the distribution of giftedness in the general population,, and the stability and continuity of gifts over the course of childhood and adolescence. These complexities lead to a 4-fold typology of giftedness that has important practical implications. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)
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When we identify people, especially children, for giftedness, we often neglect what arguably is the most important kind of giftedness of all--giftedness for leadership. Ultimately, the individuals we identify should not just be potentially "good" in one or more domains, but also potential leaders in that domain. There is a big difference between merely knowing a lot about a field and taking a leadership role in that field. Gifted adults-- certainly those who are remembered--are those who take a leadership role. This article argues that effective leaders demonstrate in their leadership a synthesis of three elements: creativity, intelligence, and wisdom. Creativity is used to generate novel ideas; intelligence is used to analyze the quality of these ideas, as well as to implement the ideas and persuade others of their worth; and wisdom is used to balance the effects of these ideas on all possible stakeholders. This article reviews the proposed "WICS" (Wisdom-Intelligence-Creativity-Synthesized) theory of giftedness in leadership, and compares it to some other theories. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)
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At the K-12 level one assumes that mathematically gifted students identified by out-of-level testing are also creative in their work. In professional mathematics, "creative" mathematicians constitute a very small subset within the field. At this level, mathematical giftedness does not necessarily imply mathematical creativity but the converse is certainly true. In the domain of mathematics, are the words creativity and giftedness synonyms? In this article, the constructs of mathematical creativity and mathematical giftedness are developed via a synthesis and analysis of the general literature on creativity and giftedness. The notions of creativity and giftedness at the K-12 and professional levels are compared and contrasted to develop principles and models that theoretically "maximize" the compatibility of these constructs. The relevance of these models is discussed with practical considerations for the classroom. The paper also significantly extends ideas presented by Usiskin (2000). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)
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