The Gifted Child Grows Up: Twenty-Five Years’ Follow-Up of a Superior Group

Description

This is the fourth volume resulting from the Stanford studies of gifted children. Those which preceded it have dealt successively with _The Mental and Physical Traits of a Thousand Gifted Children_ (Terman et al., 1925), _The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses_ (Cox, 1926), and _The Promise of Youth: Follow-up Studies of a Thousand Gifted Children_ (Burks, Jensen, and Terman, 1930). The present volume is an over-all report of the work done with the California group of gifted subjects from l921 to 1946, the greater part of it being devoted to a summary of the follow-up data obtained in 1940 and 1945. At the latter date the average age of the group was approximately thirty-five years, a period of life when the adult careers of the subjects are rapidly taking form. The chief aim of the report is to give as complete a picture as possible, within a single volume, of what the group is like at the end of the first twenty-five years of testing and observation. 1. Inception and Nature of the Research 2. Composition and Social Origin of the Gifted Group 3. Characteristic Traits of the Gifted Child: Physique, Health, and Educational Achievement 4. Characteristic Traits of the Gifted Child: Interests and Preoccupations 5. Characteristic Traits of the Gifted Child: Character Tests and Trait Ratings 6. Six Years Later: The Promise of Youth 7. Later Follow-Up: 1936, 1940, 1945 8. Mortality 9. General Health and Physique 10. Mental Health, Nervous Disorders, and General Adjustment 11. Intelligence Test of 1940 12. "Intellectual Status of the Gifted Subjects as Adults" [by Quinn McNemar] 13. Educational Histories 14. Occupational Status and Earned Income 15. Vocational Interest Tests 16. Avocational and Other Interests 17. Political and Social Attitudes 18. Marriage, Divorce, Martial Selection, and Offspring 19. Marital Adjustment 20. The Problem of School Acceleration 21. Subjects of IQ 170 or Above 22. Subjects of Jewish Descent 23. Factors in the Achievement of Gifted Men 24. War Records 25. Appraisal of Achievement 26. Looking Backward and Forward - References Cited - Additional Selected Readings - Appendix - Index