The Gifted Child Grows Up: Twenty-Five Years’ Follow-Up of a Superior Group

✍ Scribed by Lewis M. Terman, Melita H. Oden, Nancy Bayley, Helen Marshall, Quinn McNemar, Ellen B. Sullivan

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Year: 1947
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 456
• Series: Genetic Studies of Genius #4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is the fourth volume resulting from the Stanford studies of gifted children. Those which preceded it have dealt successively with The Mental and Physical Traits of a Thousand Gifted Children (Terman et al., 1925), The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses (Cox, 1926), and The Promise of Youth: Follow-up Studies of a Thousand Gifted Children (Burks, Jensen, and Terman, 1930). The present volume is an over-all report of the work done with the California group of gifted subjects from l921 to 1946, the greater part of it being devoted to a summary of the follow-up data obtained in 1940 and 1945. At the latter date the average age of the group was approximately thirty-five years, a period of life when the adult careers of the subjects are rapidly taking form. The chief aim of the report is to give as complete a picture as possible, within a single volume, of what the group is like at the end of the first twenty-five years of testing and observation.

✦ Table of Contents

1. Inception and Nature of the Research
2. Composition and Social Origin of the Gifted Group
3. Characteristic Traits of the Gifted Child: Physique, Health, and Educational Achievement
4. Characteristic Traits of the Gifted Child: Interests and Preoccupations
5. Characteristic Traits of the Gifted Child: Character Tests and Trait Ratings
6. Six Years Later: The Promise of Youth
7. Later Follow-Up: 1936, 1940, 1945
8. Mortality
9. General Health and Physique
10. Mental Health, Nervous Disorders, and General Adjustment
11. Intelligence Test of 1940
12. "Intellectual Status of the Gifted Subjects as Adults" [by Quinn McNemar]
13. Educational Histories
14. Occupational Status and Earned Income
15. Vocational Interest Tests
16. Avocational and Other Interests
17. Political and Social Attitudes
18. Marriage, Divorce, Martial Selection, and Offspring
19. Marital Adjustment
20. The Problem of School Acceleration
21. Subjects of IQ 170 or Above
22. Subjects of Jewish Descent
23. Factors in the Achievement of Gifted Men
24. War Records
25. Appraisal of Achievement
26. Looking Backward and Forward
27. References Cited
28. Additional Selected Readings
29. Appendix
30. Index

✦ Subjects

Lewis Terman, Terman study, Genetic Studies of Genius, intelligence, occupation, longitudinal study, marriage, gifted and talented, hobbies, values, health, life satisfaction