Borges del Rosal Africa, Hernández-Jorge Carmen, Rodríguez-Naveiras Elena
Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain.
Psicothema. 2011 Aug;23(3):362-7.
Personal and social adjustment of high-ability children and adolescents is a very important issue in the specialized literature. The differences found between data for and against appropriate adjustment in gifted children and adolescents could be explained by conceptual or methodological biases. In this work, the relation between adjustment and high abilities are contrasted in a sample of teenagers from the Canary Islands, using a screening procedure based on their scores in intelligence tests. Results show that, although gifted adolescents differ significantly from their peers in the control group in socio-economic variables and academic performance, there are no differences in personal, social and educational adjustment. We conclude that adjustment problems and high ability are independent variables, and there is no evidence to support that gifted individuals have adjustment problems.
高能力儿童和青少年的个人及社会适应是专业文献中一个非常重要的问题。在有天赋的儿童和青少年中，支持和反对适当适应的数据差异可能由概念或方法上的偏差来解释。在这项研究中，我们以加那利群岛青少年为样本，通过基于智力测试分数的筛选程序，对比了适应能力与高能力之间的关系。结果表明，尽管在社会经济变量和学业成绩方面，有天赋的青少年与对照组同龄人有显著差异，但在个人、社会和教育适应方面并无差异。我们得出结论，适应问题和高能力是相互独立的变量，没有证据支持有天赋的个体存在适应问题。
