ABSTRACT
Most research on giftedness concerns intellectual giftedness or talents in such specific domains of performance as the school, sports, or arts. In this paper giftedness in the domain of personality is considered because personality development has rarely been studied from such a perspective. Personality is defined here as the genetically influenced behavioural styles that typify individuals across different situations and different points in time, and manifest themselves in the problem solving of the individuals and quality of adjustment across the life span. From such a perspective, facets of an individual’s openness to new experience, such as intellect, creativity, imagination, and fantasy, are part of the individual’s personality. In other words, intellectual giftedness is part of a gifted personality.
