Work Preferences, Life Values, and Personal Views of Top Math/Science Graduate Students and the Profoundly Gifted: Developmental Changes and Gender Differences During Emerging Adulthood and Parenthood

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 517-532

  Ferriman, Kimberley ^a   Lubinski, David ^a   Benbow, Camilla P ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

circumscription and compromise; eminence; evolutionary psychology; math science talent; vocational psychology

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREER MOBILITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER IDENTITY; GIFTED CHILD; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCIENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAREER CHOICE; CAREER MOBILITY; CHILD, GIFTED; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; EDUCATION, GRADUATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PARENTS; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SCIENCE; SOCIAL VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949199496     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016030     Document Type: Article

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