A comparison study (N=114) of identified gifted (N=61, M=22, F=39, mean age 15.9) and vocational adolescents (N=53, M=27, F=26, mean age 16) was conducted using the Overexcitability Questionnaire (OEQ). Each of the five types of OE scores was subjected to two-way ANOVA. The analyses produced the following results: (a) gifted males were higher than gifted females, vocational males, and vocational females in Imaginational and Intellectual overexcitability, and (b) there were no differences among the Psychomotor, Sensual, and Emotional means of the four groups. A qualitative textual analysis of high coded responses for both groups was conducted to illustrate these findings.