Multiple intelligences��? profile of the students of the Faculty of Home Economics in King Abdul-Aziz University

Abstract

Nasiema Mustafa Sadeq AL-Khalidi

This study aimed at identifying the Multiple Intelligences of the students of the Faculty of Home Economics in King Abdul-Aziz University. It also aimed at investigating whether the profiles of the Multiple Intelligences of students differ according to their specializations. The method of this study is a survey, so the population consisted of students of the faculty of Home Economics in king Abdul Aziz University enrolled in the second year 2013, the study sample consisted of (288) students who are studying the seven Sections of the faculty: Educational Economics, Childhood Studies , Islamic Arts, Food and Nutrition, Textiles and Clothes and Housing ,and Interior design .The researcher prepared a scale which consisted of (90) items divided into (9) dimensions, each dimension represented a specific type of intelligence . The scale was validated and the factor of reliability Cornbach’s Alpha was calculated it was (0.88) which is considered to be accepted for research purposes. Then the means and the standard deviations of the answers of the students for each dimension with all its items were calculated. The results showed that the most prevalent intelligences among the students of the Faculty of Home Economics in King Abdul-Aziz University are the following ones, arranged according to prevalence: the existential, the personal, the spatial, the bodily, the natural, then the verbal, while the lowest mean is that of the musical intelligence. Also the results showed that there are differences among the students of the Faculty of Home Economics in King Abdul-Aziz University in Multiple Intelligences profiles according to specialization in the university. To know the significance of these differences, Scheffe Test for Post Comparisons was used the results revealed that there are statically significant differences in favor of students of Islamic Arts compared with those of Food and Nutrition. Furthermore, the students of Educational Economics were better than those of childhood studies, Nutrition and Housing While the students of Islamic Arts were better than childhood studies, Nutrition, clothes and Housing.