Designing and Standardizing of Bodily – Kinesthetic Intelligence Assessment Questionnaire in Iranian Society

Bahrami, Alireza; Moradi, Jalil; Golmohammadi, Behrouz; Sajadinezhad, Marzieh Sadat

doi:10.22059/jsmdl.2023.354329.1700

Document Type : Research Paper I Open Access I Released under CC BY-NC 4.0 license

Authors

¹ Department of Motor Behavior and Sports Psychology, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Arak University, Arak , Iran.

² Department of sport psychology, Sport Sciences Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.

³ Department of Motor Behavior and Sport psychology, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Arak University, Arak, Iran .

⁴ Department of sport psychology, Sport Sciences Research Institute, Tehran , Iran

⁵ Department of Physical Education , Faculty of Human Sciences, Sport Sciences Department , Semnan State University, Semnan, Iran.

⁶ Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Arak University , Arak, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22059/jsmdl.2023.354329.1700

Abstract

Introduction: This research aimed to design and standardize the bodily-kinesthetic intelligence assessment questionnaire in Iranian society.
Methods: The current research method was a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods with an exploratory design – an instrument development model. In the qualitative stage, after conducting 12 semi-structured interviews, related categories were collected and after checking the face and content validity, a 36-item questionnaire was designed. In the quantitative stage, the validity and reliability of the researcher-made questionnaire were examined. The statistical sample consisted of 808 teenagers from five provinces of the country who were selected by the multi-stage cluster sampling method and all the subjects completed the questionnaire. To determine the concurrent validity, the KTK3+ motor competence standard test was used, and to check the temporal reliability and consistency, test-retest and Cronbach's alpha coefficient were used.
Results: Through exploratory factor analysis, five factors of physical fitness factors related to health and skill, perceptual ability, non-verbal communication, enjoyment and participation in various physical activities, and learning and experience of motor skills were identified and these five factors explained 51% of the total variance. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed that the goodness of fit index and the comparative fit index was higher than 0.90. In concurrent validity, the correlation between the scores of the two tests was 0.51 and Cronbach's alpha coefficients (0.89) and intra-class correlation (0.87) were also obtained.
Conclusion: In general, it can be concluded that the bodily-kinesthetic intelligence questionnaire has a suitable and acceptable validity and reliability, and by using this questionnaire, the assessment of the bodily-kinesthetic intelligence of teenagers is possible.

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