Abstract
A 118-item factored biographical questionnaire was administered to 173 male and 209 female adolescents participating in a special 8-wk. program for high school juniors and seniors gifted in art, drama, foreign language, English, math, music, science, and social science. The girls in the 8 different gifted areas had significantly different mean scores on the life history factors of social leadership, academic achievement, scientific-artistic interests, cultural-literary interests, and maladjustment. The males in the 8 different gifted areas had significantly different mean scores on the life history factors of intellectualism, social introversion, positive academic attitude, and sibling friction. Ten of 13 factor scales for males differentiated either the academically and/or artistically talented from a group of average ability. A similar result for girls was found on 12 of 15 scales.
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