Investigating The Personality Traits of Gifted Adolescents

Gifted issues are among cases that throughout history have been considered by different scholars. The statistical population of this study includes all adolescents of gifted girls of 14 to 18 year's old who study in gifted schools in the academic year 2016-2017 in Tehran. According to the type of research and the statistical population, a convenience targeted sampling method was used for this research. The sample consisted of 120 people. In this research, for the evaluation of personality traits, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI - ARF) which has been validated and standardized by Kamkari and Shokrzadeh was used. In order to analyze the data, one-sample t-test was used with SPSS software. The results showed that according to the results and with emphasis on the amount of t obtained, there was a significant difference at the level of a = 0.01 between the theoretical mean with the empirical mean in scales; thought deficit and behavioral deficit, "clinical" scales, "Physical / cognitive and internalization" scales, with the exception of illness scales, gastrointestinal complaints, headache complaints, helplessness, disappointment and body image disturbance, "extraversion, interpersonal and interests" scales, and the scale of irresponsibility of gifted adolescents.