Development and validation of Multiple Intelligences Scale in Indian Context

The aim of the present study was to develop and validate a Multiple Intelligences Scale in Indian context. Howard Gardner( 1999) questioned the idea of intelligence as a single entity, resulted from a single factor, and proposed Multiple intelligences, a multidimensional construct,  and gave equal weight age to all the 9  types of intelligence, (“verbal intelligence”, “logical/ mathematical intelligence”, “spatial/visual intelligence”, “musical intelligence”, “bodily-kinaesthetic intelligence”, “interpersonal intelligence”, “intrapersonal intelligence”, “naturalistic intelligence” and “existential intelligence”), each independent of all others, but all interacting to produce a person’s intellectual capacities.