Personal and Behavioral Peculiarities of Gifted Children: The Search for Invariant Characteristics of Giftedness

In this article the author makes an attempt to generalize and systematize, with the help of comparative and classification approaches, the data from the actual and actively developing in the modern social sciences field of experimental research of giftedness, which is aimed at searching for the basic characteristics of giftedness and creating a typical psychological portrait of a gifted child. The results of research of personal and behavioral peculiarities of gifted children both in comparison with peers and within a group of gifted children are presented.