The personality functioning of 90 children with intelligence quotients greater than 135 was examined with the Child Behavior Checklist(CBCL) and the Child Behavior Checklist-Teacher's Reobrt Form (CBCL-TRF). Results for the CBCL and the CBCL-TRF demonstrated that the incidence of psychopathology in this sample was comparable to that in the normative population. Only 9% of the sample were rated as having clinical levels of psychopathology. Children with intelligence quotients greater than 150 were shown to have no greater levels of psychopathology than those with intelligence quotients between 136 and 140.
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