Relationship between multiple intelligences and gender

Abstract

Howard Gardner affirms in his theory of multiple intelligences that there is not only one intelligence, but that people have eight intelligences that are interrelated, facilitating the human being's ability to solve environmental problems more efficiently. But depending on the genetics and the context, people tend to have one or some more developed than others. For the present investigation, the question arose if there was a difference between multiple intelligences and the gender of the person. The design used was a cross-sectional, non-experimental, correlational, quantitative approach with a multi-stage conglomerate probabilistic sample of 573 students from the city of Cúcuta in grades 5 and 6 of basic education, with an average age of 11.16 years and a deviation of 1.37 years old, the collection instrument was made up of two sections, the first made up of the sociodemographic information, sex and age, and the second made up of the questions from the multiple intelligence questionnaire, adapted from McKenzie. Chi-square hypothesis test and multiple correspondence analysis were implemented. High levels of naturalistic, kinesthetic and logical mathematical intelligence were evidenced in male students, as well as high levels of interpersonal, intrapersonal and linguistic intelligence in female students.