The paper presents the results of the study of adolescent giftedness in the context of the personal typology of K. Young-D. Keirsey. A comparative analysis of the distribution of temperaments types (in the sense of D. Keirsey) on the Western samples of gifted adolescent , on the one hand, and the winners of the competition in the Minor Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, was carried out. It is proved that the frequencies of NT and SJ temperament types in both samples are generally consistent, namely: they are represented significantly more often and less often than the average, respectively.
