Research Article
How Do School Children and Adolescents Perceive the Nature of Talent Development? A Case Study from Finland
Table 2
Factor loadings, communalities (h2), and percentages of variance for principal factors extraction and direct oblimin rotation on mindset items.
| | | Principal component analysis | | | Confirmatory factor analysis | | | | | | |
| Item | M (SD) | | | | Standardized coefficients |
| Mindset about intelligence | 4.19 (1.07) α = .803 | | | | |
| (1) You have a certain amount of intelligence, and you really cannot do much to change it. | 4.42 (1.26) | −.02 | .82 | .65 | | (2) Your intelligence is something about you that you cannot change very much. | 4.09 (1.23) | .05 | .84 | .75 | .81 | (3) To be honest, you cannot really change how intelligent you are. | 4.46 (1.29) | −.03 | .79 | .61 | .81 | (4) You can learn new things, but you cannot really change your basic intelligence. | 4.03 (1.28) | .02 | .77 | .61 | .73 |
| Mindset about giftedness | 3.60 (1.37) α = .931 | | | | |
| (5) You have a certain amount of giftedness, and you really cannot do much to change it. | 3.69 (1.51) | .88 | .07 | .84 | .87 | (6) Your giftedness is something about you that you cannot change very much | 3.52 (1.49) | .93 | −.01 | .85 | .89 | (7) To be honest, you cannot really change how gifted you are | 3.66 (1.54) | .89 | .02 | .81 | .92 | (8) You can learn new things, but you cannot really change your basic giftedness. | 3.51 (1.50) | .92 | −.07 | .79 | .86 |
| Percent of variance | | 52.07 | 21.65 | | |
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Based on confirmatory factor analysis the italicized item was omitted from further analysis; scale of 1–6, higher scores indicate a malleable view.
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