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3.2.5 Too Many Possibilities: Multipotentiality as a Challenge for Career Decisions
In the context of career choice of gifted students, multipotentiality is a broadly discussed problem. After a discussion of different concepts of giftedness and multipotentiality, empirical data from several questionnaire-studies with different groups in Germany will be presented: gifted pupils before and after career selection (n=86, n=135), gifted and non-gifted students (n=390), career counselors (n=230), and counselors for the gifted (n=64). Additional data from an online career choice test-tool (n= 2,234) will be used to estimate percentages of multipotentiality among the gifted in consideration of the different discussed concepts.