Moral Intelligence & Its Correlation with Other Types of Intelligence among Children in Kindergarten in Riyadh

Authors

  • Dr. Basma Suleiman Al-Hulou Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, King Saud University
  • Dr. Khawala Tahseen Sabha Department of Policies of Education and Kindergarten, Faculty of Education, King Saud University

Keywords:

الذكاء الأخلاقي، الذكاءات المتعددة، رياض الأطفال.

Abstract

The research aims to find out the relationship between moral intelligences and  multiple intelligences among a sample of kindergarten children  in Riyadh, and the two researchers used descriptive approach in its two ways of  connectivity and comparison , and the random sample have included  442 child .Moreover, it has been applied two pictured Gauges  to measure each of the moral intelligences and multiple intelligences for  each child , after the appropriate statistical analysis, the  two researchers found out that there is statistically significant relationship between the overall degree of moral intelligence and types of multiple intelligences , as well as  there are significant differences in the main scores of the dimensions of moral intelligence among a research sample in favor of females , and there is a positive correlation between moral intelligence and each of social, linguistic, logical and natural intelligences. However, there are inverse relationship between moral intelligence and each of intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Bodily -Kinesthetic Intelligences. Finally, different relationships attributed to sex between the moral intelligence dimensions and the kinds of intelligences.

Published

2020-01-20

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