A Comparative Study Between Multiple Intelligence Of Early Childhood Aged 5-6 In Teenage And Adult Mother in Kamphaeng Phet Province

Abstract

             This research aimed to compare 8 modalities of multiple intelligence of early childhood aged 5-6 years between those who were born to teenage mothers and adult mothers. The sample group, selected by multi-stage random sampling, included a total of 41 early childhood aged 5-6 years who were born to teenage mothers and those who were born to adult mothers in Kamphaeng Phet Province, Thailand. The research tool composed of the general information questionnaire of early childhood and main child caregivers and multiple intelligence tests for early childhood. Statistic used for data analysis was Mann-Whitney U Test. The results showed that there was no difference in multiple intelligence of the 2 sample groups. Most of them were at similarly weak levels, especially linguistic intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, spatial intelligence, and naturalist intelligence. Only in musical intelligence and bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, we found that the children who were born to the teenage mothers were better than those who were born to adult mothers, but it was not statistically significantly different at the 0.05 level.

        The recommendation of this study was that both children who were born to teenage mothers and adult mothers should be more developed in multiple intelligence especially in the linguistic intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, spatial intelligence and naturalist intelligence in order to have age-appropriate intelligence.