Overexcitabilities of Gifted and Talented Students and Its Related Researches in Taiwan

Researches of overexcitabilities (OEs) have been lately conducted in Taiwan since 2001. There have been nine master theses and one study unpublished exploring OEs of gifted and talented students aged from elementary thru graduate levels. The main purpose of this article is to take a meta point of view analyzing results found in these researches. Some studies conducted OE patterns in gender, grade levels, categories of G/T, life adjustment, and love experience. Others explored relationships between OEs and emotional development levels, or those between OEs and creativities. Still others tried to create a self-rating OE scale and the scale of emotional development levels. Results compared to those of western studies, their implications and suggestions were also discussed.