Leadership Potential of Talented Students/Liderski potencijal darovitih učenika

Abstract The paper aims to contribute to the knowledge about the leadership potential of talented students. The intention is to establish distinctive traits of talented students in the areas of music, art, sports, and mathematics in the following aspects of leadership: affinity for authenticity and creativity, basic personality traits, achievement motive, and emotional intelligence. The research was conducted on a convenience sample of 473 participants attending high schools for talented, using the following instruments: preconscious activity scale (PAS), Big Five Inventory (BFI), scale of achievement motive (MOP 2002) and a scale of emotional competences. The research results suggest various constellations of leadership dispositions in relation to the domain. Within the domain of sports and music, there are specific characteristics relating to public performance. Introspection and the intrapsychic plan are important characteristics of the mathematics and art domains. The domain of music and art are characterized by greater interest for innovation and diversity, while the domain of sports and mathematics revolve around “playing by set rules”. It is concluded that the leadership potential of talented students can be precisely observed and adequately supported only if it is located within the framework of individual domains. Key words: achievement motive; basic dimensions of personality; creativity; emotional intelligence. --- Sažetak Ovim se radom nastoje upotpuniti spoznaje o liderskom potencijalu darovitih ucenika. Cilj je utvrditi distinktivne karakteristike ucenika darovitih u podrucju glazbe, likovne umjetnosti, sporta i matematike, s obzirom na sljedece aspekte liderstva: sklonost originalnosti i kreativnosti, temeljne dimenzije osobnosti, motiv postignuca i emocionalna inteligencija. Istraživanje je provedeno na prigodnom uzorku od 473 ispitanika koji pohađaju specijalizirane srednje skole za darovite, a primijenjeni su sljedeci instrumenti: skala predsvjesne aktivnosti (SPA), upitnik Velikih pet (BFI), skala motiva postignuca (MOP 2002) i skala emocionalnih kompetencija. Rezultati istraživanja sugeriraju razlicite konstelacije dispozicija liderstva ovisno o vrsti domene. Domene sporta i glazbe specificne su po naglasenosti osobina koje su povezane s javnim nastupanjem. Introspektivnost i upucenost na intrapsihicki plan važne su odrednice domena matematike i likovne umjetnosti. Domene glazbe i likovne umjetnosti karakterizira izraženije zanimanje za inovativnost i raznolikost, a za domene sporta i matematike važno je „ponasanje prema utvrđenim pravilima”. Zakljucuje se da se liderski potencijal darovitih ucenika može precizno uociti i adekvatno podržavati samo ako se definira unutar okvira pojedinacnih domena. Kljucne rijeci: motiv postignuca; temeljne dimenzije osobnosti; kreativnost; emocionalna inteligencija.