Talented Teenagers
The Roots of Success and Failure

Talented Teenagers is a fascinating and absorbing examination of what makes adolescents tick.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Author), Kevin Rathunde (Author), Samuel Whalen (Author)

9780521574631, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 13 November 1996

320 pages
22.7 x 15.3 x 2.4 cm, 0.47 kg

'For a society concerned about survival, no issue is more important than the cultivation of its talented young, no outcome more devastating than the loss of talented individuals. Once again Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and his colleagues demonstrate that well-crafted social science can shed new light on such crucial issues.' Howard Gardner, Harvard University

Talented Teenagers is a fascinating and absorbing examination of what makes adolescents tick: what roles personality traits, family interactions, education, and the social environment play in a young person's motivation to develop his or her talent. Vivid descriptions in the students' own words bring the material to life. Parents, teachers, psychologists, and counselors will find in these pages concrete information abou the conditions that foster the cultivation of mental abilities in adolescence, for both the gifted and the average student.

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Part I. Talented Teens: 2. What is talent?
3. How the study was conducted: methods and procedures
4. What are talented teenagers like?
5. How talented teenagers live
Part II. The development of Talent: 6. Fields and domains of talent in adolescence
7. The experience of talent
8. How families influence the development of talent
9. Schools, teachers, and talent development
Part III. The Cultivation of Talent: 10. Commitment to talent and its correlates
11. Cultivating talent throughout life
12. What have we learned?
Appendixes
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Child & developmental psychology [JMC]