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This is the fourth volume resulting from the Stanford studies of gifted children. Those which preceded it have dealt successively with _The Mental and Physical Traits of a Thousand Gifted Children_ (Terman et al., 1925), _The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses_ (Cox, 1926), and _The Promise of Youth: Follow-up Studies of a Thousand Gifted Children_ (Burks, Jensen, and Terman, 1930). The present volume is an over-all report of the work done with the California group of gifted subjects from l921 to 1946, the greater part of it being devoted to a summary of the follow-up data obtained in 1940 and 1945. At the latter date the average age of the group was approximately thirty-five years, a period of life when the adult careers of the subjects are rapidly taking form. The chief aim of the report is to give as complete a picture as possible, within a single volume, of what the group is like at the end of the first twenty-five years of testing and observation.
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JOU, GUTED CIRUULD GROWS UP TWENTY-FIVE YEARS’ FOLLOW-UP OF A SUPERIOR GROUP VOLUME IV GENETIC STUDIES OF GENIUS BY LEWIS M. TERMAN AND MELITA H. ODEN IN ASSOCIATION WITH NANCY BAYLEY HELEN MARSHALL QUINN MC NEMAR ELLEN B. SULLIVAN STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STANFORD, CALIFORNIA Stanford University Press Stanford, California Copyright 1947 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. Copyright renewed 1975 by Frederick E. Terman and Melita H. Oden. Printed in the United States of America ISBN 0-8047-0012-5 Original edition 1947 Fifth printing 1976 TO THE GIFTED “CHILDREN” AND THEIR PARENTS, IN GRATEFUL APPRECIATION OF THEIR LOYAL AND PATIENT CO-OPERATION OVER MANY YEARS ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE The investigations summarized in this volume have been financed by grants-in-aid and anonymousgifts totaling in all close to $150,000. Three separate grants from the Commonwealth Fund of New York City defrayed the greater part of the expenses incurred between 1921 and 1929. The Carnegie Corporation of New York provided two grants which made possible the extensive follow-up of 1939-41 and the statistical work on the resulting data between 1941 and 1943. The National Research Council, through its Committee for Research on Problems of Sex, financed the studies on marital adjustments reported in chapter xix, and the Columbia Foundation of San Francisco provided three annual grants which met approximately three-fourths of the expenses incurred between 1943 and 1946 in continued follow-up of the subjects and in the preparation of this volume for publication. Stanford University, through the Thomas Welton Stanford Fund, financed the follow-up study of 1936-37 and contributed minor supplementary funds as needed between 1928 and 1936. Material assistance was provided from time to time, from the beginning of the study in 1921 to the end of 1946, by gifts from various individual donors including several parents of the subjects, a few of the subjects themselves, a member of the Stanford faculty, and the proprietor of a wellknown magazine; the total of such gifts amounts to about one-sixth of the entire cost of the study to date. Follow-up of the subjects beyond 1946 is being financed in part by the Marsden Foundation of Palm Springs, California. By special arrangement all nét profits from publications in the series, Genetic Studies of Genius, have been added to the research funds without payment of royalty to any of the authors. Vil PREFACE This is the fourth volume resulting from the Stanford studies of gifted children. Those which preceded it have dealt successively with The Mental and Physical Traits of a Thousand Gifted Children (Terman e¢ al., 1925), The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundre