An Investigation of the Relationship Between Female Volleyball Players’ Intelligence Types and Their Sportive Success

The main purpose of this study is to determine the intelligence types (verbal, mathematical, visual, musical, interpersonal, naturalist, kinesthetic and intrapersonal) of female volleyball players with their sub dimensions and enlighten the relation between the types of intelligence and their sportive success. 104 female volleyball players, who actively play in Turkish volleyball leagues, have been participated in this study. “Personal Information Form” developed by researchers and “Multiple Intelligence Observation Form” by Selcuk, Kayili, Okut (2003) have been used as data collection tools. SPSS statistical software (25.0) has been used for data analysis. Descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation analysis have been applied to the data set. When the participants’ types of intelligence have been examined, it is seen that the players who possess naturalist, visual and interpersonal intelligence predominated in numbers. It has been found that there are significant correlations between the sportive success and visual intelligence type, and the sportive success and verbal intelligence. The results clearly reveal that the type of intelligence is not the sole factor affecting the sportive success. The data obtained in this study is expected to blaze the way for the future studies in this field.