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JPT Research Digest

Personality characteristics of elementary school students within the top 1% of general intellectual ability: Comparison with general education students using three personality measures


Hughs-Baird, A. (2022).
Personality characteristics of elementary school students within the top 1% of general intellectual ability: Comparison with general education students using three personality measures [Doctoral dissertation, University of Nevada].
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Historically, it has been generally accepted that students within the top 1% of general intellectual ability (GIA) have unusual academic abilities and educational needs; however, the unusual social-emotional needs of students within this group are not universally recognized or well understood. The purpose of this exploratory quantitative study was to examine the personality characteristics of elementary school students within the top 1% of GIA in relation to general education students using three personality measures.

A sample of 3rd to 5th grade students (n = 100) was split into a treatment group of gifted (top 1%) students (n = 42) and a control group of general education students in a regular class (n = 54). Data were collected using a self-report survey instrument comprised of the fourteen subscales from the Big Five Indicator for Children (BFI-C), the Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children® (MMTIC®) instrument, and the Overexcitabilities Questionnaire-Two (OEQ-II) personality measures.

The author notes that the Big Five assessment had typical correlations with the MMTIC assessment for the students—both groups—as the Big Five does with the MBTI® instrument in adult populations. For our purposes here, the most interesting correlations were between the gifted students’ MMTIC results and OED results.

A preference for Intuition was highly correlated with the OEQ Imaginational Overexcitability scale, as was a preference for Feeling. These results confirm past studies of varying designs that correlate Intuition and Feeling (NF) with heightened imagination in adults. More surprising, however, from a type perspective, was a correlation on the OEQ scale Emotional with a preference for Intuition.


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