Gifted ‘n the ‘hood: Gender and giftedness as predictors of social risk among low-income students
| Autor: | John M. Bolland, Anneliese C. Bolland, Kevin D. Besnoy, Sara Tomek |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Social risk
Low income Poverty Aggression media_common.quotation_subject education 05 social sciences 050301 education Impulsivity humanities Education Developmental psychology Gifted education Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Temperament medicine.symptom Psychology 0503 education health care economics and organizations At-risk students 050104 developmental & child psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Exceptionality. 26:190-208 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7035 0936-2835 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09362835.2017.1355801 |
| Popis: | Research abounds on adolescent poverty and on gifted education, but these fields are seldom considered together. This study explores trajectories of aggressive behavior (i.e., weapon carrying) of impoverished, gifted youth. Results indicate that gifted students engage in lower levels of weapon carrying than non-gifted students. Gifted and non-gifted girls’ trajectories are parallel across age.However, weapon carrying among gifted and non-gifted boys does not differ during early and late adolescence, but it does during middle adolescence. These differences can perhaps be explained by examining impulsivity and temperament trajectories by gifted status. Impulsivity for boys and quick-temperedness for girls is lower during early and middle adolescence for gifted students than for non-gifted students, but not during later adolescence. Quick-temperedness for boys and impulsivity for girls does not differ by gifted status during early and late adolescence, but it does during middle adolescence. These fin... |
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