Gifted Children's Fears

Derevensky, Jeffrey L.; Coleman, Elaine B.

doi:10.1177/001698628903300203

Cited by 19 publications

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“…Kunkel, Chapa, Patterson, and Walling (1992) have presented empirical evidence that children who are gifted suffer from frustration due to high expectations and the potential failures that ensue. However, Derevensky and Coleman (1989) found that children who are gifted and children who are not gifted have similar fears about failure in school. It seems that although achievement may come easily, children who are gifted do not necessarily cope better when difficult obstacles are in place.…”

Section: Boredom and Frustrationmentioning

confidence: 96%

Serving Children Who are Gifted: Perceptions of Undergraduates Planning to Become Teachers

Bain

Bliss

Choate

et al. 2007

Journal for the Education of the Gifted

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Seeking information about preconceived notions of the educational needs of children who are gifted, we asked 285 undergraduates in prerequisite classes for teacher education to complete questionnaires. topics addressed included the need for special services for children who are gifted, perceptions of forms of service delivery in elementary schools, and egalitarian versus elitist issues in gifted education. Preferences among our respondents fell in favor of services carried out in general classroom settings at elementary schools, reflecting egalitarian attitudes. We found misconceptions, compared to empirical evidence, for notions about tutoring practices and academic acceleration. in their response rates to items, undergraduates previously served as gifted differed only occasionally from those not served as gifted. We discuss implications of our findings in terms of the need for proponents of gifted programs to address some misconceptions that appear to be related to school reform and appropriate services for children who are gifted.

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Section: Boredom and Frustrationmentioning

confidence: 96%

Serving Children Who are Gifted: Perceptions of Undergraduates Planning to Become Teachers

Bain

Bliss

Choate

et al. 2007

Journal for the Education of the Gifted

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“…Moreover, age has been found to interact with measured intelligence. Derevensky and Coleman (1989) found that the fears of 8-year-old children with high IQs tendDownloaded by [University of Montana] at 12:40 07 April 2015 ed to be more similar to those of older children than to those of average-IQ 8-yearolds, in that they focused more on reality than on imagination.…”

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Parents' Perceptions of Children's Worries in a Changing World

Gottlieb

Bronstein

1996

The Journal of Genetic Psychology

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The nature and intensity of worries that preadolescent children experience and the extent to which parents are aware of their children's concerns were examined. Questionnaires with three subscales (Physical Harm, Daily Life Matters, and Global Issues) were filled out by 89 6th graders and their parents. Parents underestimated the overall degree to which children worry, and they tended to believe that their children worried most about daily life matters, such as grades and popularity; children were in fact least worried about daily life matters and most worried about global issues, such as pollution and starvation. Both child and parent gender differences were found.

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“…Research shows gifted students exhibit fear more than their nongifted counterparts (Derevensky & Coleman, 1989). The top fears of gifted students are war, violence, and death and disease (Derevensky & Coleman, 1989).…”

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confidence: 99%