Cognitive Profile of Intellectually Gifted Adults: Analyzing the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. (July 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Cognitive Profile of Intellectually Gifted Adults: Analyzing the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. (July 2019)
- Main Title:
- Cognitive Profile of Intellectually Gifted Adults: Analyzing the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
- Authors:
- Lang, Margherita
Matta, Michael
Parolin, Laura
Morrone, Cristina
Pezzuti, Lina - Abstract:
- The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) has been used extensively to study intellectual abilities of special groups. Here, we report the results of an intellectually gifted group on the WAIS-IV. Gifted individuals are people who obtained scores equal to or greater than 2 standard deviations above the mean on an intelligence test. Hence, the current study aims first, to examine mean group performance data of gifted individuals on the WAIS-IV; second, to revalidate the pattern of performance identified in this special group in previous studies (i.e., verbal skills higher than all other abilities); third, to compare scatter measures across intellectual domains with a matched comparison group. A total of 130 gifted individuals (79 males) were administered the full battery and their performance was compared with a matched comparison group. Analyses revealed that gifted group displayed higher scores in all intellectual domains. Contrary to expectations, they showed the highest scores in perceptual reasoning tasks. A multivariate approach revealed that this ability was statistically different from all other domains within the gifted group. Moreover, gifted individuals showed higher discrepancies across intellectual domains than average-intelligence people. Findings have important practical implications to detect intellectual giftedness in adulthood.
- Is Part Of:
- Assessment. Volume 26:Number 5(2019)
- Journal:
- Assessment
- Issue:
- Volume 26:Number 5(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 26, Issue 5 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 26
- Issue:
- 5
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0026-0005-0000
- Page Start:
- 929
- Page End:
- 943
- Publication Date:
- 2019-07
- Subjects:
- intellectual giftedness -- CHC theory of intelligence -- WAIS-IV -- fluid reasoning -- underachievement -- discrepancies
Psychological tests -- Periodicals
Psychodiagnostics -- Periodicals
Personality tests -- Periodicals
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http://firstsearch.oclc.org ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/1073191117733547 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1073-1911
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