The effect of addiction to social networking sites on the bodily-kinesthetic intelligence of junior football players

Abstract EN

This study aims to find out the effect of addiction to social networking sites on the physical and kinetic intelligence of junior footballers in light of a set of variables (environment, family monthly income, academic level).

for this reason, the researcher relied on the experimental method for its relevance to the nature of the study, and the sample may consist of 60 youths in football, divided into two groups, an experimental group and a control group, where they were chosen in an intentional way.

the study data were collected using two main tools: the Cengiz Şahin social media addiction scale- student form (SMAS-SF), which consists of 28 items distributed over 04 dimensions; the bodily-kinesthetic intelligence (BKI) scale consists of 19 items distributed over 04 dimensions.

to process the collected data and in order to test the hypotheses of the study, a student's t-test was used; the analysis of variance 'f' test, the results of the study showed that the addiction to social networking sites negatively affects the physical and kinetic intelligence of junior footballers, and there were no statistically significant differences in the variables of the study level and the family monthly income, while it was found that there were statistically significant differences in the environment variable.