The personality functioning of 90 children with intelligence quotients greater than 135 was examined with the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS) (Edwards, 1959). A criterion measure, the Child Behavior Checklist, was also administered to determine whether deviations for EPPS variables from age-appropriate norms indicated psychopathology. Significant divergence for males and females was noted. However, reliable differences from high school norms were more frequent for females, as the scores of males and females in this gifted sample were more similar to each other than to scores from the high school norms. Results for the Child Behavior Checklist demonstrated that the incidence of psychopathology in this sample was comparable to that in the normative population. Results on the EPPS and Child Behavior Checklist variables were comparable for children with intelligence quotients greater than 150 and those with IQs between 136 and 140.
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