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draws on [the author's] research findings and clinical practice to address the psychological and sociocultural challenges faced by gifted women in their academic, personal, and professional lives / although these issues can seem overwhelming, many women have found ways to cope with and transcend pressures to be less than their best / utilizes 3 case studies to illustrate the attitudes, beliefs, and psychological skills that enhance women's resilience and empower them to participate more fully in the world (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: book) women must cultivate not only their intellectual and creative capacities, but the psychological resilience that will enable them to overcome the constraints that have thwarted the expression of female giftedness / focuses on the concept of resilience because it holds the key to resolving this dilemma and changing . . . personal and public domains (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

provides an historical account of the ways in which the expression of women's talent has been shaped by the era in which they live / concentrating primarily on the last 2 centuries, [the author] traces the inroads and impediments to achievement of remarkable women in previous generations / documenting the ways in which women have been barred from attaining eminence, [she] questions eminence as an adequate gauge of women's giftedness / urges us to respect the untold nameless women who have laid the groundwork for gifted women today to be able to develop their talents (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: book)

although there are several women in the Old Testament who are exemplars of wisdom and reflection, there are 2 women who exhibit a reflective giftedness superior to the women and men of their times / Deborah, the only female of the 12 judges or leaders of Israel, used wisdom to deliver the Israelites from the Canaanites / Judith, a wise and thoughtful widow, was praised for lucid understanding, prudent counsel, and unfaltering courage as she beheaded an Assyrian king and restored peace to the Israelites in today's world exist cognitively gifted women who serve as exemplars of wisdom, reflective judgment, and intellectual giftedness / although deeds serve as testament to the gifts of the biblical women, current research in cognitive development and the application of the case-study method attest to the cognitive competence of 2 such contemporary women: Ss of this discourse—Deborah and Judith / presents social, historical, cultural, and educational information about their lives and how these experiences have influenced their reflective giftedness (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter) [examines] exceptional cognitive talent [of these women] / [the author's] qualitative study investigates the relationship between the highest levels of reflective judgment; intellectual disposition; and personal, educational, and life-related history (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: book)

My [the author's] theory is that the precursors of human intelligence lie in the human language capacity and human mental ability. Evolutionary pressure favors the interaction between the symbolic world of language and the mental world, leading to the creation of concepts. In this book I propose the notion of conceptual intelligence, that is, intelligence as a result of thinking and learning through concepts. . . . Here I trace the development of concepts, the growth of conceptual thought, and how conceptual thinking and conceptual learning make the human species intelligent and creative. This book is for general readers as well as for researchers in the field. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: preface)

Gifted children—children years ahead of their peers—have long inspired fascination, envy, fear, and rejection. Misconceptions about children with special abilities abound. In this . . . book, Ellen Winner uncovers and explores 9 myths about giftedness, and shows us what these children are really like. Using vivid case studies, Winner paints a complex picture of the gifted child. Winner uses her research with these and several other extraordinary children, as well as the latest biological and psychological evidence, to debunk the many myths about academic, musical, and artistic giftedness. [This book] also looks at the role played by schools in fostering exceptional abilities. Winner castigates schools for wasting resources on weak educational programs for the moderately gifted. Instead, she advocates elevating standards for all children and focusing our resources for gifted education on those with extreme abilities—children who are left untouched by the kinds of minimal programs we have today. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: jacket)

discusses the history of Puerto Rican female achievement and examines the experiences and perceptions of 2 adolescent girls who participated in an ethnographic study of culturally diverse high school students (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: book) examines how family, school, community, and personal factors influence the academic achievement of gifted [urban] Puerto Rican females (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

"Remarkable Women: Perspectives on Female Talent Development" is [a] book to consolidate and expand existing knowledge about highly capable women and the internal and external forces that lead them to extraordinary adult accomplishment. The collected studies include women from a wide variety of backgrounds and talent domains whose paths to exceptional achievement illuminate the nature of female talent development and provide models to help more women fulfill their promise in adulthood. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: cover)

summarizes and synthesizes the recent research and literature related to counseling gifted girls and women of color / discusses issues and concerns that [can jeopardize women's recognition and expression of their giftedness] / summarizes [multicultural] counseling strategies that are most appropriate / the terms "gifted girls of color" and "gifted women" of color refer to those of African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Hispanic descent, who were either born in the US or whose socialization occurred primarily in the US / case examples discussed in this work are taken from the author's practice and from the case loads of her counseling-in-training / Ss consist of graduate and undergraduate students and community residents who were clients of the university counseling center common issues of gifted women of color [racial and cultural identity, socialization of gifted women of color, families, employment opportunities] (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

[delineates] the strengths and weaknesses of lower class values which affect gifted women's educational progress / these strengths include experience with perseverance, creativity, and the ability to make do with available resources / some weaknesses include the devaluing of nonmanual labor, isolation, lack of stimulation, and the availability of few role models / clinical case studies and current literature [are] utilized to clarify the relationship between class and giftedness / the identification of gifted women by their families of origin and the schools, as well as their presenting concerns in therapy, are often affected by economic class / implications and recommendations for therapists and educators [are] discussed (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

This book examines the dominant techniques used to educate gifted youth today and the exemplification of those techniques in various university-based programs across the country. From a review of the current research on individual differences and its relevance to intellectual talent to descriptions of the current knowledge about educating gifted children, this book illustrates how our educational system can enhance gifted youths' academic achievement. "Intellectual Talent" examines the political ramifications of emotionally loaded findings about individual differences—documenting cases in which findings that contradict prevailing social values are simply ignored. The book also explores what is known about educating gifted children and why educators sometimes fail to act on that knowledge. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: cover)

reflect on the complex difference between intellectual giftedness and genius / focus on factors, many intriguing in and of themselves, that are characteristic of genius / the author's primary thesis is that the emergence of genius is best described using a multiplicative model / argue that exceptional achievement is a multiplicative function of a number of different traits, each of which is normally distributed, but which in combination are so synergistic as to skew the resulting distribution of achievement / how many different traits are involved in producing extraordinary achievement, and what are they / provide some conjectures that can be drawn on to answer this critical question intelligence / creativity [the creative process, psychosis, productivity, mental energy, other personality correlates, characteristics of genius: some conclusions] / giftedness and genius: important differences / educational implications (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

This book was written to help capable kids, their parents, and teachers consider a variety of coping strategies for dealing with their concerns. It also explains why having a range of strategies available maximizes the outcomes and increases a sense of control and adequacy. It details the problems and needs of bright young people and the unique patterns of personality, social, emotional, and moral development that typify this group. True stories of bright kids and how they cope are told from varied perspectives—their own, their teachers, and/or their parents—and offer a glimpse of the differing viewpoints on common problems. This book is actually two books in one. One is written specifically for adolescents and preadolescents; the other is written for teachers and parents. However, the authors believe that capable kids can understand complex ideas, and that adults should not be told one thing and kids another; therefore, both groups should read both books. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: introduction)

Gifted children have been studied by educators for many years. However, gifted adults have not been researched as extensively. The subject of this study was to determine whether characteristics which are recognized in the literature as unique to gifted children are also unique to gifted adults. The study explored questions such as: Do gifted college-age individuals have unique characteristics which are not shared by their nongifted peers? If there are unique characteristics what might they be? Do the parents of college-age individuals agree or disagree with their children's perceptions of selected personal characteristics? Are there significant differences between male and female gifted college-age individuals? If there are significant differences what are they? To explore these questions one hundred twenty college-age students, their parents, and one faculty member each were surveyed. The survey developed was a Likert scale containing forty items. Students marked their self-perception for each item. Parents and faculty marked each item indicating how they perceived the student. The student, parent, and faculty responses were compared by t-test to determine whether they showed statistically significant differences in personal characteristics between the gifted and nongifted students. Students' self-perceptions were compared to parent and faculty perceptions. Sixty of the students surveyed had been identified as "gifted" by the public school they attended in Oregon. The other sixty students had not been identified as "gifted" by the Oregon public school they attended. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

The purpose of this study was to document qualitative descriptors of student behaviors associated with giftedness as valued by the native Hawaiian community. Four research questions were asked: (a) Within the native Hawaiian community, how is giftedness defined? (b) What characteristics do the native Hawaiian community identify as indicative of giftedness in children? (c) To what degree does cultural distinctiveness affect native Hawaiian students' expressions of traits, aptitudes, or behaviors associated with giftedness? and (d) How does the native Hawaiian concept of giftedness relate to a set of core attributes associated with giftedness? Twenty key informants from the Hawaiian islands of Hawai'i and O'ahu were interviewed and the content of the interviews was inductively analyzed. The Hawaiian viewpoint about outstanding human abilities began with the belief that everyone is given gifts by those who come before. The areas of these gifts comprehensively span the whole spectrum of human experience and were believed to be expressible throughout a person's lifetime and across generations. In the Hawaiian community, individuals who excel with their given gifts are doing what they are supposed to do. Therefore the expression of their gifts is a natural phenomenon, not an anomaly or deviation from common law. Five rucial conditions were identified for the nurturance of given gifts. Topical ideas or categories of valued human qualities also emerged. Descriptions of specific traits, aptitudes, and behaviors valued within the Hawaiian community were given. The findings of this study appear to support the idea that gifted individuals, are present in every cultural group. There are however, differences in the interpretation of what constitutes giftedness in the Hawaiian community. The distinct differences included new dimensions such as spirituality, the conscious awareness of one's self, others (whether others were in the past, present, or future time frames), and one (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

This study examined the relationship between giftedness in women and their perceptions of how their parents behaved toward them in terms of acceptance, psychological control, and behavioral control. Sixty-six gifted and nongifted women constituted the sample of investigation. Giftedness was assessed in four areas: learning, motivation, creativity, and leadership. Perceptions of the three parental behaviors were evaluated separately for the mothers and for the fathers. Findings suggested that perceptions of acceptance, psychological control, and behavioral control were significantly related to giftedness scores in women. In addition, gifted women were found to perceive that their mothers and fathers accepted them, supported their psychological autonomy, and exerted behavioral control over them. Perceived maternal acceptance and paternal psychological control were significantly predictable from giftedness scores. No significant differences were found between the formally identified gifted and nongifted women with respect to perceptions of the parental behaviors. However, significant differences were found between the two groups on their giftedness scores, indicating that giftedness was validly measured in the study. A discussion of the results, implications, and suggestions for future research are presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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)

Problem. This study examined the relationship between giftedness and levels of depression and self-esteem at two points in time. It was hypothesized that psychosocial stressors experienced by gifted children would result in higher levels of psychopathology in the form of depression and lower self-esteem among the gifted than among their nongifted peers. In addition, it was hypothesized that as gifted children grew older and progressed in school, levels of low self-esteem and depression would become more profound. Method. Equal numbers of elementary and high school gifted and nongifted children were selected to participate in the study. Sixty high school gifted and nongifted tenth and eleventh grade students and sixty elementary fourth and fifth grade students were randomly selected to participate in the study. Subjects were given the Culture-Free Self-Esteem Inventory and the Children's Depression Inventory. In addition, all children were asked to complete a projective drawing of a person. Results. Significant differences were found between elementary and high school gifted and nongifted children. Elementary gifted children demonstrated a slight advantage over nongifted peers. They were found to have higher levels of self- esteem related to academics and lower levels of depression and anhedonia. However, these advantages disappeared over time, and at the high school level there were no significant differences between gifted and nongifted groups. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Investigated differences in EEG alpha activity between gifted and average individuals (aged 17–19 yrs). In the 1st experiment, EEG during 2 relaxation phases (eyes closed and eyes open) was recorded. Gifted Ss showed higher EEG alpha power only while resting with eyes open. In Exp 2, Ss solved 2 problems that were divided into phases of problem solving and preparing for problem solving. Significant differences were obtained only for the problem-solving stages. Gifted Ss showed higher alpha power (less mental effort) while solving the 2 problems. Exp 3 investigated whether the lower mental activity displayed by gifted Ss was related to their ability to form more abstract schemata. For that purpose EEG was recorded while Ss memorized lists of words and pictures that either allowed, or did not allow, for classification into more abstract categories. For both types of lists, gifted Ss displayed higher alpha power. The results confirm the hypothesis that the higher EEG alpha power during information processing displayed by gifted individuals may derive from the nonuse of many brain areas not required for the problem at hand. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)

Investigated patterns of Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—III (WISC—III) IQ subtest scores for 42 gifted children in Grades 4–8. Subtest scatter of WISC—III scores occurred with greater frequency in the gifted sample than for Ss in the test manual's normative sample. Variability from the subtest mean of the gifted was most evident on Similarities, Comprehension, Coding, and Symbol Search. The extent of subtest scatter and its pattern on the WISC—III was similar to typical patterns of highs and lows found for gifted children on the WISC—Revised with one notable exception: There was a marked lack of strength in Block Design, previously seen as a peak subtest for gifted students when assessed with the WISC—R. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Delineates strengths and weaknesses of lower class values that affect gifted women's educational progress. The strengths include experience with perseverance, creativity, and the ability to make do with available resources. Weaknesses include the devaluing of nonmanual labor, isolation, lack of stimulation, and the availability of few role models. Clinical case studies and current literature will be used to clarify the relationship between class and giftedness. The identification of gifted women by their families of origin and the schools and their presenting concerns in therapy are often affected by economic class. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)