Personality Traits of Parents of Gifted Children

Abstract

62 parents of gifted children completed the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire. In comparison to the general male population, the fathers tended to be more intelligent, more independent, more aloof, more assertive, and more tense. The mothers also tended to be more intelligent and more independent but were also more conscientious, persistent, and took a more calculated controlled approach to life than the general female population. As a combined group, the parents of gifted children were found to be more intelligent, more likely to stand by their own ideas, more assertive, more independent, self-controlled, and persistent than the general population.