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2.1.4 Time Attitude Profile Differences in Personality, Perfectionism, Coping, and Environmental Concerns Among Gifted Slovenian Adolescents
We grouped 307 gifted adolescents in Slovenia according to positive and negative measured attitudes to time. Cluster analyses yielded five clusters, Positives, Negatives, Past Negatives, Present Negatives, and Pessimists. We then compared the clusters in terms of academic self-concept, positivity, the Big Five personality traits, adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism, coping strategies, environmental concerns, and environmental attitudes. Positives generally had the highest scores on adaptive constructs (e.g., positivity, coping strategies, openness to experience), and a negative group generally had the lowest scores on the adaptive constructs, with the reverse being true for the maladaptive constructs. The results indicate that there is tremendous diversity in psychosocial functioning among gifted students.
Author(s):
Frank Worrell
frankc@berkeley.edu
University of California, Berkeley
United States
Frank C. Worrell is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he serves as Faculty Director of the School Psychology Program, the Academic Talent Development Program, and the California College Preparatory Academy. His areas of expertise include at-risk youth, cultural identities, scale development, talent development, time perspective, and the translation of psychological research into practice. Dr. Worrell is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Psychological Association, and a recipient of National Association for Gifted Children’s Distinguished Scholar Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Education.
James Andretta
jamesrandretta@gmail.com
Bridgetown Psychological LLC
United States
James R. Andretta is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, where he conducts forensic mental health examinations of adolescents and adults. He completed his doctoral degree in school psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2010 and a post-doctoral fellowship in child and adolescent forensic psychology at the Superior Court of Washington, DC, in 2013, where he worked as a forensic psychologist before moving to the Northwest Forensic Institute in Portland, Oregon. His research interests include time attitudes, mental health of youth with court contact, and the use of statistics in criminal cases.
Mojca Juriševič
mojca.jurisevic@pef.uni-lj.si
University of Ljubljana
Slovenia
Mojca Juriševič, Ph.D., is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the Faculty of Education of the University of Ljubljana. She is the Head of the faculty’s Centre for Research and Promotion of Giftedness. She is the author of a chapter on gifted education in the White Paper on Education in the Republic of Slovenia (2011). In 2014, she chaired the 14th ECHA Conference in Ljubljana. She serves as a national coordinator of Erasmus+ Founded Project, EGIFT, led by CTY Ireland, as a member of the Council of European Talent Support Network, and as a national delegate of the WCGTC.