Fears of gifted children
| Title in English | Feras of gifted children |
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | R&D Presentation |
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| Description | Fears are a normal part of childhood because fear is an innate, protective response to situations or objects, which appear threatening or dangerous. Fear is a useful emotion for the survival of the individual and the species. Child developmental research shows a clear stage - specific fears. Fears in young typical children commonly concetrate on certain animals (like snakes, tigres, lions, dogs.) Sometimes children are afraid of the dark or of unseen monsters. Fears of social evaluation and competence are typical for the period of middle childhood and adolescence Presented research is a part broadly composed longitudinal study of socio-emotional characteristics and adjustment of intelectually gifted children in the Czech Republic. The core question of presented research is wheather intelectually gifted primary school children ( N = 57 children) have different kinds of fears because of their advanced cognitive abilities, different experiences, precouscious readings abilities and more sophisticated interests and hobbies. The method „Cake of fears“ was used to give children tool to freely display their fears and perceived freithfullness. Statistical analyses shows, that fears of gifted children are very different from fears of control sample children. Possible explanations of these findings, relationships to cognitive maturity of gifted children are discussed. |
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