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Resilience and Giftedness
Risk and Protective Factors
Mediating Mechanisms
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Defined as the the ability to attain emotional health and social competence in the face of adversity
What is resilience?
100
Studies show that these children have the following traits in common with gifted children: intelligent curiosity, self-efficacy, a high moral regard, a positive explanatory style, a keen sense of humor, and problem solving ability.
What are resilient children?
100
Previous chapters have pointed to a lack of this as a risk factor for underachievement and for some emotional/social adjustment difficulties.
What is appropriate educational programming?
100
Since studies have only recently started shifting to the transactional and ecological adjustment of gifted children, field practitioners have not yet done much to apply study findings to these.
What are intervention and programming?
200
Developmental sciences have explored risk and resilience concepts for approximately this many years.
What is 50 years?
200
It is a common observation that successful disadvantaged gifted children tend to exhibit a number of ___________ associated with resilience.
What are personal qualities?
200
Lack of access to mental age peers and lowered curriculum content expectations can lead to this type of outcome for gifted children.
What is a negative outcome?
200
In Cross, Coleman, and Stewart's 1995 study, the more _________ gifted high schoolers felt from their classmates, the more negative their perception of their own social competence was.
What is different?
300
Doll and Lyon described these as "constellations of hazards and benefits". The first two generations of research surrounding risk and resilience of gifted children focused on these two aspects, which studied and outlined projected paths of developmental outcomes. These two aspects of research focus on the variables that shift developmental pathways toward positive or negative results.
What are risk and protective factors?
300
Research and literature regarding resilience suggests supporting the psychosocial needs of gifted children by reducing these.
What are known risk factors?
300
A gifted child's intensity and excitability could act as this for a number of processes that can ultimately lead to either positive or negative developmental outcomes.
What is a trigger?
300
These are important for dealing with stress and adversity and should be studied in order to understand risk and resilience.
What are mechanisms?
400
Research consistently finds that this is the most powerful predictor of a positive outcome for vulnerable children.
What is a relationship with a caring adult?
400
Research and literature regarding resilience suggests supporting the psychosocial needs of gifted children by enhancing these.
What are protective factors?
400
This contributes to a gifted child's resilience; along with curiosity, moral concern, humor, and self-efficacy.
What is problem solving abilities?
400
Bland, Sowa, and Callahan suggest that this paradigm may have to explain resilience within gifted children. Early cognitive maturity of gifted students may strengthen one's ability to guard against negative outcomes of underchallenging environments and unsympathetic adults.
What is Lazarus and Folkman's cognitive appraisal paradigm?
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The third, and newest, generation of research shifts to an evolving consideration of transactional processes among risk and protective factors within these four groups.
What are the child, family, school, and community?
500
Research and literature regarding resilience suggests supporting the psychosocial needs of gifted children by strengthening these which are inked to emotional health and social competence.
What are personal qualities?
500
Strong connections to these can provide the support necessary to make the difference between achievement and underachievement for gifted children.
What are social networks?
500
Evidence shows that these schools often incorporate support into daily curriculum while other levels of schooling often lack proper protective factors.
What are elementary schools?