TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychosocial Aspects of the Development of Gifted Underachievers
T2 - Review and Implications
AU - Gonzalez, Jacqueline
AU - Hayes, Alan
PY - 1988
Y1 - 1988
N2 - Gifted underachievers are children who display a discrepancy between expected high achievement and actual’ performance. Focussing on gifted children with a long-standing pattern of underachievement not explicable in terms of learning disability, this paper adopts a developmental perspective to the problem of gifted underachievement. Literature is reviewed on the affective development of gifted underachievers and the environmental factors which may foster or diminish success in school. It is argued that cognitive and affective variables do not operate independently and should not be considered in isolation from the environmental context of development. Further, gifted underachievers are not a homogeneous group, and some influences on achievement are situation-specific and highly variable. Finally, implications for intervention are discussed in light of the need to view children’s development not as a dichotomy of cognitive and affective change but holistically, as a complex interaction of child and environment.
AB - Gifted underachievers are children who display a discrepancy between expected high achievement and actual’ performance. Focussing on gifted children with a long-standing pattern of underachievement not explicable in terms of learning disability, this paper adopts a developmental perspective to the problem of gifted underachievement. Literature is reviewed on the affective development of gifted underachievers and the environmental factors which may foster or diminish success in school. It is argued that cognitive and affective variables do not operate independently and should not be considered in isolation from the environmental context of development. Further, gifted underachievers are not a homogeneous group, and some influences on achievement are situation-specific and highly variable. Finally, implications for intervention are discussed in light of the need to view children’s development not as a dichotomy of cognitive and affective change but holistically, as a complex interaction of child and environment.
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U2 - 10.1080/0156655880350105
DO - 10.1080/0156655880350105
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0039423972
SN - 0156-6555
VL - 35
SP - 39
EP - 51
JO - The Exceptional Child
JF - The Exceptional Child
IS - 1
ER -