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Gifted Women from Potential to Achievement

:	Yongling Xue
:	Gifted Women from Potential to Achievement
:	Herbert Utz Verlag
:	9783831604050
:	1
:	CHF 29.20
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:	Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik
:	English

:	126
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The text"Gifted Women from Potential to Achievement" focuses on the opinions regarding gender differences in performance. The theme of the text is how gifted women can display their giftedness, the barriers and the access. Women, who are 30-55 years old and well educated are the main roles in the text. Both women and men, Germans and Chinese participated in the investigation. A gender and cross culture comparison is possible.

Part 4: Research Results (p. 53-54)

The research results will be introduced in this part. It will be divided into three sections: the first one is the results from the interviews, the second one is the results from the questionnaires, the third one is to compare the two kinds of results. The results both from the questionnaires and interviews will be categorized into four groups: Chinese male group (CM), Chinese female group (CF), German male group (GM), and German female group (GF).

1. Results from the Interview

The results from the interview will be introduced in this section. Combining the assumptions of the research and the main variables, the results will be divided into some small topics. Each of the topics contains a description of the results, a table of the contents, a comparison of the results, and some questions which will be discussed later. AQUAD software as a tool was used for content analysis. For the tables, instead of displaying the computing numbers to the readers, the marking points are displayed. This way was adopted because: the contents of the results are complicated, it is difficult to include the interviewees‘ answers of one question to one of the categories, the answers are usually multiple, marking points according to the answers can see clearly not only the results of each questions but also the results of each individuals. It is more helpful to use the table to make the analysis.

1.1 Personal Data

The personal data of the 21 interviewees includes their sexual distinction, age, marriage status, educational level, occupation, income, children having, country of origin, and religious belief. According to the original plan, the data of the interviewees’ spouse, father, and mother, their education and occupation should be included. Because the information of these variables was not complete, because the cases of the interview were not many, to use the interviewees’ spouse’s, fathers’ and mothers’ education or occupation as categories does not make much sense. So the three variables will not be included in the results. The 21 interviewees are 10 men and 11 women including 10 Chinese and 11 Germans. Their age are centralized 30-45, more than half of them are married, near half of them have a doctoral degree, their occupations range widely: doctor, teacher, artist, engineer, housewife, manager, author, veterinarian, and students, half of them feel that their income is sufficient, near half of them have children, near half of them have religious beliefs (see Table 1).

The table shows that Chinese people who are married are more than German people. German people who work are more than Chinese people. Chinese people who have children are more than German people. German people who have religious beliefs are more than Chinese people. Two points are needed to explain. One is the educational degree system. The Chinese system contains three levels: bachelor (4-year study), master (3-year study), doctor (3-year study). The German system combines the bachelor and the master. So we cannot see in the table that there are Germans who have bachelor degree (in fact the students who are in their first or second year study in a German university are just on the bachelor level). Two is the Chinese doctoral students and housewives in Munich. Many of Chinese had job when they were in China. In order to engage in advanced studies, they came to Munich as students, or in order to accompany their husbands, some wives came to Munich as housewives.

	Preface	4
	Contents	6
	Part 1: Introduction	8
	1. Giftedness in Society	8
	2. Achievement of Women	9
	3. The Structure of the Text	11
	Part 2: Literature Review	12
	1. Giftedness in Child: the Potential	12
	1.1 Definition in General	12
	1.2 Categories of Definitions	13
	1.3 Different Theories	13
	1.4 Special Issues: Gifted Girls	15
	2. Giftedness in Adults: the Achievement	16
	2.1 Definition in General	16
	2.2 Categories of Definitions	17
	2.3 Different Theories	20
	2.4 Special Issues: Gifted Women	22
	2.5 Gifted Underachiever	26
	3. From Potential to Achievement	29
	3.1 Vocational Choice Theory	29
	3.2 Work Adjustment Theory	32
	3.3 Comparing the Two Theories	35
	4. The Theme of the Thesis	35
	4.1 Finding a Starting Point	35
	4.2 The Assumptions of the Thesis	37
	Part 3: Research Design	40
	1. Investigation Method	40
	1.1 Questionnaire and Interview	40
	1.2 Sampling Survey and Case Study	42
	1.3 The Process of the Investigation	43
	2. The Research Objects	43
	2.1 The Research Objects	43
	2.2 The Research Sampling	44
	3. Explanation of the Variables	45
	3.1 Operational Concept	45
	3.2 Operational Assumptions	46
	3.3 Explanation of the Variables	47
	4. The Process of Data Collection	50
	4.1 The Questionnaire Data	50
	4.2 The Interview Data	51
	5. The Method of Data Analysis	52
	5.1 Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis	52
	5.2 Description and Explanation	53
	Part 4: Research Results	54
	1. Results from the Interview	54
	1.1 Personal Data	54
	1.2 Goal Pursuit	56
	1.3 Giftedness and Success	63
	1.4 Career and Family for Women and Men	65
	1.5 Obstacles of Women and Men	67
	1.6 Success and Satisfaction for Women and Men	69
	2. Results from the Questionnaire	71
	2.1 Personal Data	72
	2.2 Goal Pursuit	73
	2.3 Choice Preference	74
	2.4 Ability Judgment	76
	2.5 Attribution Style	77
	2.6 Environmental Factors	78
	2.7 Success and Satisfaction	79
	3. Summary of the Results	81
	3.1 Goal Pursuit	81
	3.2 Choice Preference	82
	3.3 Ability Judgment and Attribution Style	83
	3.4 Views of Giftedness and Success	83
	3.5 Success and Satisfaction	84
	3.6 Obstacles of Women and Men	84
	Part 5: Discussion and Conclusion	86
	1. Giftedness and Achievement	86
	1.1 Multiple Intelligence	86
	1.2 Defined by Society	88
	1.3 Changing in Time	89
	2. Goal and Achievement	91
	2.1 Destination of Aspiration	91
	2.2 Shaping the Environment	92
	3. Choice and Achievement	94
	3.1 Catching the Opportunity	94
	3.2 Using the Resources	95
	4. Gender and Culture	101
	4.1 Giftedness and Achievement	102
	4.2 Goal and Achievement	104
	4.3 Choice and Achievement	105
	5. Success and Satisfaction	106
	5.1 Varied Meanings and Degrees	106
	5.2 Different Experience	111
	Reference	118
	Appendix 1	120
	Appendix 2	124