For several years, there was a growing interest in intellectual giftedness and in particular in
the non-cognitive specificities of gifted individuals. This topic attracted much public attention …

Despite multiple edited volumes dedicated to the various theories and conceptions of
giftedness and talent that have been published over the past 40 years, the field of gifted …

Social, Emotional, and Psychosocial Development of Gifted and Talented Individuals:
Merges the fields of individual differences, developmental psychology, and educational …

Neurodivergence has traditionally been characterised in medical and scientific research
through the third person and pathologising lens of the medical model of disability, whereby …

Wisdom always has been important in human thought and action, especially its ethical
component, but it has become far more important in the context of twenty-first century …

This article aims to conceptualize, operationalize, and empirically validate the concept of
actual personality development in the aftermath of a Critical Life Event. Two qualitative tools …

Interest in overexcitability (OE) in the field of gifted education has increased significantly
since the 1980s. Research on its relationship to giftedness, once the sole province of a few …

Kazimierz Dąbrowski's (1902–1980) five-level theory of personality development, the Theory
of Positive Disintegration, is one in which the experience of all emotions is essential for the …

This chapter examines the concept of wisdom and transformationally gifted individuals
through the lens of Kazimierz Dąbrowski's five-level Theory of Positive Disintegration. This is …

Kazimierz Dąbrowski's five-level theory of personality development, the Theory of Positive
Disintegration, is one in which the experience of all emotions is essential for the process of …