This study examines the developmental crisis of talented individuals in puberty and adolescence
during which there are personality conflicts of identity versus role confusion. The article describes
how intellectually gifted and sports talented individuals experience this fundamental opposition and
the needs for it to be resolved at the end of adolescence. The research examined the congruence of
the structural organization and the nature of ego identity of intellectually gifted and sports talented
individuals in puberty and adolescence. It was conducted in two stages (i) the development of a
semantic differential for measuring participants’ ego identity (following the concepts developed by
Erik H. Erikson) and undertaking factor analysis, and (ii): a comparison of the congruence of the
structural organization and the nature of ego identity in comparable groups of participants. The
factor analysis identified four parameters denoting the nature of ego identity in adolescence: positive
identity, negative identity, confusion identity, and identity crisis. Significant differences were found
in the congruence of the structural organization of ego identity in puberty and adolescence.