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Peer reviewedGallagher, James J. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1991
This paper on underachievement in gifted students distinguishes between environmental, personal-neurological, and personal-psychological causes of underachievement. Characteristics of gifted underachievers are described, and strategies to change the pattern of the "personal-psychological" underachiever are discussed, with emphasis on coping…
Descriptors: Coping, Elementary Secondary Education, Etiology, Gifted
