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Piirto, Jane; Fraas, John – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2012
Two groups of adolescents (N = 114), 61 identified-gifted adolescents (M = 22, F = 39) and 51 vocational school adolescents (M = 27, F = 26), were compared on the Overexcitability Questionnaire. Each of the five Overexcitability (OE) scores--Psychomotor, Sensual, Imaginational, Intellectual, and Emotional--was subjected to a two-way ANOVA by…
Descriptors: Gifted, Questionnaires, Effect Size, Gender Differences
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Dykens, Elisabeth M. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2004
Although maladaptive and compulsive behaviors are increasingly well-described in young persons with Prader-Willi syndrome, it is unclear how these problems manifest in older adults with this syndrome. In Part I, I compared maladaptive and compulsive behaviors in 45 older adults with Prader-Willi syndrome (ages 30 to 50 years) to 195 children,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Predictor Variables, Comparative Analysis
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Rimmerman, Arie; Yurkevich, Oren; Birger, Moshe; Araten-Bergman, Tal – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2005
The research studies the quality of life (QOL) of 127 men and women diagnosed as having a borderline IQ and ADHD living in two major residential programs of the Sharon region in central Israel in respect to their personal, disability, and social ecological variables. Core findings indicate that men and women differ significantly according to their…
Descriptors: Residential Programs, Quality of Life, Attention Deficit Disorders, Questionnaires