Although there is much research on adolescent poverty, research related to youth living in communities characterized by extreme poverty who are also identified as academically gifted is lacking. This study explores the development of hopelessness in these youths, compared with peers not identified as gifted, using data from the Mobile Youth and Poverty Study. Specifically, trajectories of hopelessness as a function of gifted status and gender are explored. Results indicate that boys experience greater feelings of hopelessness than girls, regardless of their gifted status, and students identified as gifted have lower levels of hopelessness than their peers not identified as gifted. These latter differences are particularly pronounced during early adolescence (age 10 years) but decline over time and largely disappear by later adolescence (age 18 years). Results suggest that boys may be particularly vulnerable to declining effects of gifted classification as a protector against hopelessness across age and that disadvantaged students who are identified as gifted may benefit from gifted programs that continue at an intense level through their high school years.

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学业资优和性别对经济困难地区学生绝望发展轨迹的影响

尽管有很多关于青少年贫困的研究，但缺乏与生活在极端贫困社区中且被认定为具有学术天赋的青年相关的研究。本研究使用来自流动青年和贫困研究的数据，探讨了这些青年与未被认定为有天赋的同龄人相比，绝望的发展情况。具体而言，探索了作为天才地位和性别函数的绝望轨迹。结果表明，男孩比女孩经历更多的绝望感，无论他们的天才地位如何，被认定为天才的学生比没有被认定为天才的同龄人的绝望程度更低。这些后一种差异在青春期早期（10 岁）特别明显，但随着时间的推移而下降，并在青春期后期（18 岁）基本消失。结果表明，男孩可能特别容易受到天才分类作为防止跨年龄绝望的保护者的影响下降的影响，并且被确定为天才的弱势学生可能会受益于在高中阶段持续高强度的天才计划。