Department of Clinical and Lifespan Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Psychol Assess. 2014 Mar;26(1):55-68. doi: 10.1037/a0034475. Epub 2013 Sep 30.
The concept of overexcitability, derived from Dabrowski's theory of personality development, offers a promising approach for the study of the developmental dynamics of giftedness. The present study aimed at (a) examining the factorial structure of the Overexcitabilities Questionnaire-II scores (OEQ-II) and (b) testing measurement invariance of these scores across intelligence and gender. A sample of 641 Dutch-speaking adolescents from 11 to 15 years old, 363 girls and 278 boys, participated in this study. Results showed that a model without cross-loadings did not fit the data well (using confirmatory factor analysis), whereas a factor model in which all cross-loadings were included yielded fit statistics that were in support of the factorial structure of the OEQ-II scores (using exploratory structural equation modeling). Furthermore, our findings supported the assumption of (partial) strict measurement invariance of the OEQ-II scores across intelligence levels and across gender. Such levels of measurement invariance allow valid comparisons between factor means and factor relationships across groups. In particular, the gifted group scored significantly higher on intellectual and sensual overexcitability (OE) than the nongifted group, girls scored higher on emotional and sensual OE than boys, and boys scored higher on intellectual and psychomotor OE than girls.
过度兴奋性的概念源自达布罗夫斯基的人格发展理论，为研究天赋的发展动态提供了一种有前途的方法。本研究旨在：(a)检验过度兴奋问卷-II 得分（OEQ-II）的因子结构；(b)测试这些得分在智力和性别上的测量不变性。本研究的样本包括 641 名 11 至 15 岁的荷兰语青少年，其中 363 名女孩和 278 名男孩。结果表明，没有交叉负荷的模型不太适合数据（使用验证性因子分析），而包含所有交叉负荷的因子模型产生的拟合统计数据支持 OEQ-II 得分的因子结构（使用探索性结构方程建模）。此外，我们的发现支持 OEQ-II 得分在智力水平和性别上具有（部分）严格测量不变性的假设。这种测量不变性水平允许在组间进行因子均值和因子关系的有效比较。特别是，与非天才组相比，天才组在智力和感官过度兴奋（OE）方面的得分明显更高，女孩在情绪和感官 OE 方面的得分高于男孩，而男孩在智力和心理运动 OE 方面的得分高于女孩。
