Department of Psychology, Educational Science and Human Movement, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze ed. 15, 90128, Palermo, Italy.
Servizio ULTREIA Cooperativa Progetto Insieme, via Cappello 42/44, 30027, Noventa Padovana, Italy.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2024 Jun;55(3):768-789. doi: 10.1007/s10578-022-01420-w. Epub 2022 Oct 1.
This work systematically reviewed past literature to investigate the association between intellectual giftedness and socio-emotional and/or behavioral disorders. Nineteen studies met the inclusion criteria, 17 of which have children and/or adolescents as participants, and 12 have a non-gifted control group. Socio-emotional problems, such as withdrawal, were found in 3 out of 8 studies; internalizing disorders, such as anxiety, were found in 5 out of 9; externalizing disorders, such as hyperactivity, were found in 3 out of 5. The most investigated comorbidity was attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. A univocal conclusion on the relationship between intellectual giftedness and socio-emotional/behavioral problems cannot be drawn, principally because of the heterogeneity of participants' age, informants, and instruments. The review highlights the need for future studies to use multi-informant and comprehensive assessments, to reach more robust findings, and suggests that age and discrepancy between verbal and non-verbal intellectual abilities should be considered critical factors.
这项工作系统地回顾了过去的文献，调查了智力天赋与社会情感和/或行为障碍之间的关系。19 项研究符合纳入标准，其中 17 项研究的参与者为儿童和/或青少年，12 项研究有非天才对照组。在 8 项研究中有 3 项发现了社会情感问题，如退缩；在 9 项研究中有 5 项发现了内化障碍，如焦虑；在 5 项研究中有 3 项发现了外化障碍，如多动。研究最多的共病是注意缺陷/多动障碍。由于参与者的年龄、信息来源和工具的异质性，不能得出智力天赋与社会情感/行为问题之间存在必然联系的明确结论。该综述强调了未来研究需要使用多信息源和全面评估，以获得更可靠的发现，并表明年龄和言语与非言语智力能力之间的差异应被视为关键因素。
