부모용 유아 영재성 평정 척도 개발 = Development of Parental Rating Scale for Young Children`s Giftedness

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to develop a tool that could be used by parents to discover their children`s giftedness. The subjects were 96 gifted and 160 ordinary young children in Seoul and Gwangju, Korea. The gifted young children`s average age was 57.27 months(SD=10.00) and the ordinary young children`s average age was 62.20 months(SD=10.20). Content validity was produced by 6 experts who rated items for young children`s giftedness. The result of factor analysis showed that 40 items of the original 58 items were related to discover young children`s giftedness. The seven factors explained 67.19% of the total variance. The seven factors were verbal ability, independence, logical thinking, originality, task commitment, humor, and risk-taking. Concurrent validity was indicated by positive correlations between this tool of giftedness and Yoon(1998)`s checklist for behavioral characteristics of superior children(r=.56, p<.001). In addition, the test showed significant differences between gifted young children and ordinary young children in 40 items. The test represented high reliability: Cronbach`s α ranged from .83 to .91 for seven subfactors and .96 for total factors. The above results show that the test is the appropriate tool to discover young children`s giftedness.