Stimuleren van toptalent in het onderwijs:effect op negatieve gevoelens bij uitblinken ; Stimulating top talent in Dutch education:The effect on outperformance-related distress

Stimulating outperformance has high priority in Dutch education. Aim is to change the Dutch egalitarian culture to a more performanceoriented culture that rewards outperformance. Although privately satisfying, outperformance can also lead to interpersonal strain. Elxine and Lobel (1999) introduced the term Sensitivity about being the Target of a Threatening Upward Comparison (STTUC) to refer to this outperformance-related distress. Through a systematic review of 39 studies (37 samples) evidence was found for the STTUC-framework and characteristics of the outperformer, situation and relation we... Mehr ...