Psychological well-being in gifted people

Abstract

Psychological well-being in gifted people has been a subject of controversy in the specialised literature. Sometimes it was considered that these people were prone to being psychologically maladjusted, while other results have been inconclusive. A study is presented here on the psychological well-being in people of high intellectual abilities. The Scale of Psychological Well-Being was administered to 28 participants aged between 22 and 34 years old. They were distributed into two groups, one gifted and other with standard intelligence. The gifted group had been identified as such twenty-five years ago, when they were aged between 5 and 13 years, using Renzulli's three-ring identification model. The results did not show significant differences between participants on well-being scale, except for the material well-being subscale.