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Early Adolescent Gifted And Talented Students And Their Experience With Bullying, William T. Allen Jr.
Early Adolescent Gifted And Talented Students And Their Experience With Bullying, William T. Allen Jr.
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Bullying, in all its forms (e.g., verbal, physical, cyber, social ostracism), is a continual problem in public schools. It exacerbates the painfully high suicide rate among early adolescent students, especially in the western U.S., with some evidence showing distinctions within the academically advanced gifted and talented (GT) cohort. Research shows GT students (GTs) are bullied at nearly double the rate of the mainstream population. Yet, quantitative statistics indicate GTs and non-GTs suffer comparable rates of trauma internalization, suicide ideation, and suicide. Some quantitative differences do start to appear with further personality distinctions. This points to a possibility that qualitative dissimilarities …