Psychometric characteristics of the harter self-perception profiles for adolescents and children for use with gifted populations

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 70-86

  Moritz Rudasill, Kathleen ^a   Callahan, Carolyn M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Gifted; Self concept; Self perception profiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449090987     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0016986207311056     Document Type: Article

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