Table 2.
Revised-Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (R-CMAS) anxiety scores (child's self-report evaluation) in children (n = 608) grouped with respect to the 130 cut-off of intellectual giftedness for the total IQ score and the Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI) or Perceptual Reasoning Index (PRI) index
| R-CMAS | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total anxiety | Physiological anxiety | Worry/oversensitivity | Social concerns/concentration | ||||||||||||||
| WISC-IV | n | Mean | s.d. | t (d.f. = 606) | P | Mean | s.d. | t (d.f. = 606) | P | Mean | s.d. | t (d.f. = 606) | P | Mean | s.d. | t (d.f. = 606) | P |
| Total IQ | 1.380 | 0.168 | 1.468 | 0.144 | 0.800 | 0.424 | 1.143 | 0.253 | |||||||||
| IQ ≥ 130 | 211 | 50.6 | 12.4 | 50.9 | 10.2 | 49.1 | 12.8 | 52.2 | 11.3 | ||||||||
| IQ < 130 | 397 | 52.2 | 13.1 | 52.3 | 11.3 | 50.0 | 12.8 | 53.3 | 11.5 | ||||||||
| VCI | 2.436 | 0.015 | 1.989 | 0.047 | 2.162 | 0.031 | 1.931 | 0.054 | |||||||||
| VCI ≥ 130 | 180 | 53.4 | 13.1 | 49.2 | 12.7 | 49.0 | 11.3 | 45.6 | 12.4 | ||||||||
| VCI < 130 | 417 | 50.7 | 12.8 | 51.0 | 11.7 | 54.3 | 10.6 | 52.1 | 10.6 | ||||||||
| PRI | 2.701 | 0.007 | 1.897 | 0.058 | 2.569 | 0.010 | 1.799 | 0.072 | |||||||||
| PRI ≥ 130 | 28 | 45.3 | 14.7 | 48.0 | 12.7 | 43.6 | 12.0 | 49.1 | 10.3 | ||||||||
| PRI < 130 | 580 | 51.9 | 12.7 | 52.0 | 10.9 | 50.0 | 12.8 | 53.1 | 11.4 | ||||||||
WISC-IV, Wechsler Intelligence Scale-IV.