MULTI-DIMENSIONAL STUDY OF THE INTELLECTUALLY GIFTED ADOLESCENTS
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Intellectually Gifted, Interests, Creativity, Academic Achievement, Personality.Abstract
The present study is aimed at studying some intellectual and non-intellectual endowments and characteristics of the intellectually gifted children and also to see how their self-development could be influenced by a planned orientation through lectures and exercises. 740 boys and 520 girls from five randomly selected senior secondary schools having IQ of 145 or above comprised the sample for study. Intelligence, interests, self-esteem, creativity, neuroticism and extraversion, anxiety and sociometric status were studied of such students. These students were given eight sessions of orientation consisting of lecture-cum-demonstration of communication skills, creative thinking and problem solving, leadership and initiative, self-motivation techniques, interpersonal relations and self-development. The results of the study show that gifted children need three things from their parents and teachers. These are (i) acceptance (ii) understanding and (iii) superior insight into problems given their ability for generalising, reasoning and dealing with abstraction. They learn readily and easily, have good memory to listen to. Parents must give active help to their child in assisting him/her to discover his/her assets and limitations - physical, mental and social and to match these with the requirements of different vocations.
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