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Extra-Intellectual Factors for the Achievement of Giftedness

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the contemporary conceptions of giftedness, which emphasize the importance of personal and environmental characteristics for updating the high abilities, the authors of the paper provide an overview of the research dealing with the influence of personality traits and environment circumstances to the achievement of giftedness by using the method of theoretical analysis. There has been made an attempt to complement the knowledge on extraintellectual sphere of the gifted, hoping to get a more comprehensive picture of factors for the achievement of the gifted than the one that is currently available. The overall findings of all the aforementioned researches are contained in the statement that a destiny of the exceptional potentials largely depends on the extraintellectual factors. Above-average skills are certainly an important element of giftedness, since they allow better performing of certain activities. However, by themselves they are not enough to convey the giftedness in exceptional achievements. Although persons gifted in different domains have many common characteristics, their personality profiles, and environmental opportunities show certain specificities, what leads to the conclusion that the phenomenon of giftedness can be accurately viewed only if it is located in the framework of individual domains. Therefore, the authors conclude that in addition to the multi-dimensionality, as the crucial modern characteristic of the construct of giftedness, the reference framework of the research of this problem must be defined in terms of the specific domain of manifesting excellence.

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