%0 Journal Article
%T Cognitive Profile of Intellectually Gifted Adults: Analyzing the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
%A Cristina Morrone
%A Laura Parolin
%A Lina Pezzuti
%A Margherita Lang
%A Michael Matta
%J Assessment
%@ 1552-3489
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1073191117733547
%X The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) has been used extensively to study intellectual abilities of special groups. Here, we report the results of an intellectually gifted group on the WAIS-IV. Gifted individuals are people who obtained scores equal to or greater than 2 standard deviations above the mean on an intelligence test. Hence, the current study aims first, to examine mean group performance data of gifted individuals on the WAIS-IV; second, to revalidate the pattern of performance identified in this special group in previous studies (i.e., verbal skills higher than all other abilities); third, to compare scatter measures across intellectual domains with a matched comparison group. A total of 130 gifted individuals (79 males) were administered the full battery and their performance was compared with a matched comparison group. Analyses revealed that gifted group displayed higher scores in all intellectual domains. Contrary to expectations, they showed the highest scores in perceptual reasoning tasks. A multivariate approach revealed that this ability was statistically different from all other domains within the gifted group. Moreover, gifted individuals showed higher discrepancies across intellectual domains than average-intelligence people. Findings have important practical implications to detect intellectual giftedness in adulthood
%K intellectual giftedness
%K CHC theory of intelligence
%K WAIS-IV
%K fluid reasoning
%K underachievement
%K discrepancies
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1073191117733547