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Depression and self‐actualization in gifted adolescents
Author(s) -
Berndt David J.,
Kaiser Charles F.,
van Aalst Frank
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198201)38:1<142::aid-jclp2270380123>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - psychology , learned helplessness , developmental psychology , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , cognition , variance (accounting) , psychiatry , business , accounting , economics , macroeconomics
Administered the Multiscore Depression Inventory and the Personal Orientation Inventory to 248 academically gifted adolescents drawn from across the state of South Carolina to participate in a select program. Low but significant correlations were noted among several of the scales. Factor analysis of the scales of both instruments resulted in five factors for females and six for males. In both samples the first two factors accounted for more than half the variance. Gifted students who were not self‐actualizing types were more depressed, and their pattern of scores revealed that guilt, low self‐esteem, learned helplessness, and cognitive difficulty were important symptoms. The gifted adolescents, on the whole, tended to be more socially introverted.