The Association of Physiological and Physical Parameters of Athletes in Different Sports with Multiple Intelligences

Year 2016, Volume 4 - Issue 4, 431 - 442, 28.12.2016

Duygu Sevinç , Erdinç Şıktar

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the association of the physiological and physical
parameters of athletes in different sports with multiple intelligences. A total of 120 athletes
participated voluntarily in the study. In the study, the Multiple Intelligence Self Evaluation
Scale, which was developed by Howard Gardner, and the validity and reliability study in
Turkish was conducted by Gonce Seber, was administered to the students to determine the
distribution of the types of multiple intelligences. The physical measurements of students
such as height, age and body weight and their movement measurements such as flexibility,
static balance, standing long jump, grip strength, hanging with bent arm, 20 m endurance
shuttle run, plate tapping, 10 x 5 m shuttle run and skin fold (biceps, triceps, subscapular,
suprailiac, calf) measurements. 30-second sit-up tests were also carried out. As a result, the
physiological and physical parameters of the badminton, swimming, taekwondo and football
athletes showed the lowest total score was found to be "Balance". The distribution of the
physiological and physical parameters scores of the athletes in all of the sports included in the
study was as follows: "left hand grip", "right hand grip", "fat percentage", "flexibility", "30
seconds of sit-ups", "shuttle run 20 m", "disc", "hanging with bent arm", "long jump" and
"shuttle", respectively. The highest total score for intra-personal intelligence was obtained in
badminton and football, while the highest total score for logical intelligence was obtained in
swimming and taekwondo. The intelligence type that had the lowest total score in all of the
sports was musical intelligence.

Keywords

Multiple intelligences, Eurofit test battery, football, taekwondo

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