The Effect of Ethical Intelligence in Storytelling training on Interpersonal Forgiveness of Primary School Students

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of teaching ethical intelligence in storytelling on interpersonal forgiveness of sixth grade elementary school students. This study was a semi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population consisted of all sixth grade elementary school students in Ahwaz in the academic year of 2017-18, using multistage cluster random sampling, one of the four education districts of Ahwaz was selected randomly then, from twelve secondary schools of district one, one school, and finally from two four classes, two classes were selected randomly as experimental and control groups and assigned to two groups (20 experimental group and 20 control group). The training of ethical intelligence was conducted in a storytelling manner for the experimental group, the control group did not receive any training. After completing the sessions, posttest was performed on two groups of experimental and control. The data gathering tool was an interpersonal forgery questionnaire from Ehteshamzadeh et al. (2010). After training the ethical intelligence, in the experimental group, there was a significant increase in the interpersonal indulgence compared to the control group(p <0/001). As a result, it can be said that the teaching of ethical intelligence in the storytelling method is effective in student interpersonal forgiveness.