The Effect of Storytelling on Moral Intelligence and its Components in Primary School Female Students

Background and By familiarizing children with principles of ethics and committing to them, it is possible to have a dynamic and ethical society. Considering the importance of the moral development of children in the society as well as their interest in storytelling, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of storytelling on moral intelligence and its components in primary school students.
The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test-post-test. The statistical population included all 7-year-old primary school students in Tehran's 2nd and 17th districts in 2016. Sampling in educational districts was done randomly and purposeful at schools and classes. A total of 108 students were selected, and 54 of them were trained for 9 weeks, and 45 minutes a week. The data was collected using a moral intelligence questionnaire (Dornajafi Shirazi ,2013), which was completed by the student's teacher. In order to analyze the data, covariance analysis was used.
The findings of this study showed that storytelling led to increase of moral intelligence and all its components in female primary students (p Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that storytelling by transmitting moral messages to children gradually increases the moral intelligence in children.