Multiple intelligence and kinesthetic intelligence analysis of individual sports and team sports players

The aim of this study is to analyze the effect on the kinesthetic intelligence, which is one of the multiple intelligence theories, of the athletes who are engaged to the sports branches of individual sports and team sports and the difference between them. The athletes involved in the research are 4 groups, namely girls 'individual, girls' team, male individual and male team athletes. Their ages range from 10 to 20. They are registered and licensed by the Yozgat Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports. Athletes forming the research group; they are engaged in Basketball, Football, Handball, Volleyball, Athletics, Badminton, Archery, Gymnastics, Judo, Wrestling, Taekwondo, Swimming. There are 583 people including 300 individual and 283 team athletes. Participants are asked to fill up a socio-demographic information form and Evaluation of Multiple Intelligence Areas scale that contains 80 questions in order to obtain data about gender age, place of birth, branch, athletic performance, national sporting status, parents' education level and the family's sporting background. The results were determined according to the 8-intelligence field. In the results, it was investigated whether there was a significant difference between the multiple intelligence areas and kinesthetic intelligence types of the athletes and team sports athletes. In addition, it was examined whether there was a significant difference between the athletes and team sports athletes according to their gender and national sporting situation. The data obtained were processed in SPSS 24.0 package program and analyzed by this program. Normal distribution curves, skewness-kurtosis coefficients and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test results were examined for the determination of normality. According to the result of the study; The multiple intelligence fields of the athletes vary according to the sport of interest (team sport, individual sport) and gender. Starting from here; if the results obtained in this study and the results obtained from the more comprehensive studies are similar, the phenomenon of "multiple intelligence areas ebilir may become one of the criteria that can be used in referring children to sports branches or choosing skills in sports. Keywords: Sport, Multiple İntelligence Types, Indıvıdual Sports Team Sports.