ArticleEuropean psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists2022
High intelligence is not associated with a greater propensity for mental health disorders.
Article in European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Extreme sensory processing in high intellectual potential individuals : a systematic review.BMC psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Untangling relationships between cognitive development and child and adolescent mental health: Findings from the ABCD Study.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Review
- Role of Intelligence in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Development: A Systematic Review.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Review
- Exploring the genetic overlap between substance use disorder and educational attainment.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Living With the Gift of Giftedness: An Exploratory Study on the Well-Being of Intellectually Gifted Adults.The gifted child quarterly · 2025Article
- High intelligence is not associated with a greater propensity for mental health disorders - CORRIGENDUM.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Article
- Is university attendance associated with differences in health service use for a mental health problem in emerging adulthood? Evidence from the ALSPAC population-based cohort.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Cognitive Abilities and Educational Attainment as Antecedents of Mental Disorders: A Total Population Study of Males.Psychological science · 2025Article
- Intelligence and Dietary Habits: An International Study of Mensa Members.Journal of Intelligence · 2025Article
- Multilevel multiverse meta-analysis indicates lower IQ as a risk factor for physical and mental illness.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Psychiatric Symptoms, Cognition, and Symptom Severity in Children.JAMA psychiatry · 2024Article
- Pre-service teachers' perceptions of physical, socioemotional and cognitive traits in gifted students: unveiling bias?Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- Neuromyths and knowledge about intellectual giftedness in a highly educated multilingual country.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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- Erratum issued
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Abstract
backgroundStudies reporting that highly intelligent individuals have more mental health disorders often have sampling bias, no or inadequate control groups, or insufficient sample size. We addressed these caveats by examining the difference in the prevalence of mental health disorders between individuals with high and average general intelligence (
methodsParticipants with
resultsHigh and average
conclusionsThe present study provides robust evidence that highly intelligent individuals do not have more mental health disorders than the average population. High intelligence even appears as a protective factor for general anxiety and PTSD.
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