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How Do Highly Gifted Adults Show Developmental Potential? Part 3

Deborah Ruf, PhD
21 min readMay 23, 2024

How Do Highly Gifted Adults Show Developmental Potential? Part 3 Dabrowski Levels II/III and III

Once again, we visit Gifted Adults in Their 40s and 50s during the 1990s — from Environmental, Familial, and Personal Factors That Affect the Self-Actualization of Highly Gifted Adults: Case Studies. Also published in the peer reviewed book, Morality, Ethics, and Gifted Minds.

We’ve already looked at the earlier Dabrowski Levels in Parts 1 and 2.

For readers who are interested in learning more, I recommend you read this: Full PDF of the Ambrose and Cross Morality, Ethics and Gifted Minds book is here. My contribution is Chapter 20. http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/30241/1/26.Don%20Ambrose.pdf

For the current discussion, it is necessary to review the thoughts that went into decisions related to how the adult subjects were initially ranked by their emotional and moral development. It’s important to be aware of the thoughts of others who have studied the topics, too. See Part 2 of this series for more background.

Four subjects exhibited attitudes and behaviors found in both Levels II and III. Level III people are summarized as follows:

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Deborah Ruf, PhD
Deborah Ruf, PhD

Written by Deborah Ruf, PhD

High Intelligence Specialist & Writer, Dr. Ruf writes about highly intelligent people from birth to very old age. www.fivelevelsofgifted.com

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