Sex differences in self-estimation of multiple intelligences among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents

Sex differences in self-estimation of multiple intelligences among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents

• Yuen, Man Tak University of Hong Kong
• Furnham, Adrian University College London, UK

High Ability Studies, 16(2), 187-199, 2005

Routledge

2005

• L Educational Measurement & Evaluation
  • LA Intelligence, Ability & Aptitude Tests
• A Human Growth & Development
  • AJ Sexual Difference, Bisexual Educational Difference, Sexism in Education

Foreign Countries Adolescents Intelligence Tests Factor Analysis Multiple Intelligences Gender Differences Intelligence Quotient Self Evaluation (Individuals) Parents Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

A total of 378 Hong Kong adolescents estimated their own and their parents' IQ score on each of Gardner's 10 multiple intelligences: verbal (linguistic), logical (mathematical), spatial, musical, body‐kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, existential, spiritual and naturalistic. They answered three simple questions concerning intelligence and intelligence tests. There were sex differences in eight of the 10 self‐estimates except for verbal and interpersonal. Male participants gave higher scores than female participants. Factor analyses of the 10 dimensions yielded a two‐interpretable‐factor solution: personal–social–spiritual intelligence and academic–arts–kinesthetic intelligence. There were consistent sex differences in the estimates of the academic–arts–kinesthetic intelligence factor for oneself, but not for parents, while there were sex differences in the estimates of the personal–social–spiritual intelligence factor for oneself and for mother, but not for father. The two factor scores were predicted by both gender and belief about intelligence.
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• 10.1080/13598130600618009

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2010-09-27