SELF‐DISCLOSURE OF GIFTED YOUTH

This article aimed at showing the degree of self‐disclosure of high ability youth to various persons. The degree of self‐disclosure was expressed in six categories: Attitudes and Opinions, Tastes and Interests, Work or Studies, Personality, Money, Body. The above mentioned categories were used by the subjects in self‐disclosure to: Mother, father, brother or sister, fiancé or fiancée, best friend, grandparents, relatives, friend and strangers (they are target persons). The tested group consisted of 32 persons: 26 students in the fourth and fifth year of university and 6 university graduates.     

SCHOOL ADJUSTMENT OF HIGH ABILITY STUDENTS

This article investigates interpersonal relations of high ability children with peers in the same class. Subjects were eighth grade students who, eight years earlier, had started school at the age of 6 (Le., one year in advance of agemates), because they had demonstrated outstanding abilities while in nursery school Of the 51 students from 40 elementary schools in the industrial town of Lodz, 27 were girls and 24 boys. Research instruments included the Chart of Students’ Behaviour, Raven's Matrices, Choynowski's TZT, the sociometric technique of j. L. Moreno and school records including marks. The majority of the students tested displayed high or very high achievement and appropriate interpersonal relations with peers. However, a small group of about one quarter of the total group displayed low achievement and low social acceptance, although they were of high ability. This finding is of considerable interest in view of conflicting conclusions in the relevant literature.