Zeal: Essential to Superior Intellectual Achievements?.

Freehill, Maurice F.; McDonald, Jan

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Publication Date: 1981

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Zeal: Essential to Superior Intellectual Achievements?

Freehill, Maurice F.; McDonald, Jan

Gifted Child Quarterly, v25 n3 p123-27 Sum 1981

From a study of 13 gifted adolescents, two cases provide support for the concept of a special motivation associated with breadth and depth of intellectual competency, evenness of functioning across modalities, consistency in ratings of personality characteristics, and specificity of personality profile characteristics. (SB)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Gifted, Intellectual Development, Personality Traits, Student Characteristics, Student Motivation

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Language: English

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