Abstract
The aim of this study is to compare the multiple intelligence areas of a group of physical education and sports students according to their demographic features. In the study, “Multiple Intelligence Scale”, consisting of 27 items, whose Turkish validity and reliability study have been done by Babacan (2012) and which is originally owned by McClellan and Conti (2008) has been used as the data collection tool. Moreover, together with the scale, students have been asked for fulfilling another information form of 10 items which are aimed at revealing their demographic structures. Scale has been applied to 285 students of 113 females and 172 males. Obtained data has been downloaded into SPSS (Ver. 22), a statistical packet program, and then evaluated. During the evaluation process, frequency and percentage values, ANOVA and Student-t test statistical methods have been used. Level of Alpha was set as 0.05 for statistical significance. Average age value of the participants is 21.37 ± 2.39 year, which is shared between the female and male as 20.67 ± 1.96 and 21.84 ± 2.54, respectively. In conclusion, there has been significant differences found among the intelligence areas according to the variables of gender, hometown and income level whereas, there haven’t been any differences according to the variables of the colleges they graduated from, their grades in the school of physical education and sports, the educational level of their parents, being a licensed sportsman and training age. Key words: Multiple intelligence, demographic features, physical education, sports.
Highlights
Intelligence upon which numerous studies have been done for years is an abstract concept
When the literature was reviewed, most of the age values found in other studies among the university students (Bacak and Dalkiran, 2016; Karakollukcu et al, 2014; Ozdogan et al, 2012; Aslan et al, 2010) bear similarity with values found in this study
In this study, when the secondary education institutions were examined, it is seen that, of the participants, 150 people equivalent to 63.50%, 43 people with the rate of 15.10%, 38 people with 13.30%, 14 people with 4.90% and 6 people with 2.10% have graduated from general state high school, sports high school, vocational high school, Anatolian high school and the other type of high school, respectively
Summary
Intelligence upon which numerous studies have been done for years is an abstract concept. For this reason, it turns out to be a feature which has always been a matter of curiosity, whose borders are to be drawn and to be questioned. Piaget (1972) brought an explanation about intelligence on the basis of development. He revealed how the individual has adapted to the environment by assimilation and congruity at different ages and claimed that in order to understand the intelligence, how the knowledge is obtained and used should be examined.
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