The Effectiveness of Moral Intelligence Training on Female Students with Conduct Disorder

Morality and moral intelligence are among the variables that can be taught to children to reduce the negative and undesirable consequences of behavior disorder among them. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of moral intelligence training on reducing the symptoms of behavioral disorder among students at Gorgan educational and behavioral welfare improvement center.

The research was a quasi-experimental method with the pretest-posttest design and the control group. The study population consisted of the educational center, and correction of welfare behaviors. The sample size is 50 people (including 25 subjects in experimental group and 25 in control group). Sampling method was convenient method, and participants were assigned into two groups of control and tested, and after selecting based on age and education, each group was subjected to moral intelligence and conduct disorder pre-test. After that, during the two months of training, moral intelligence was conducted and after completing the training, simultaneously and in the same conditions, the post-test was performed, the analysis method. The moral intelligence and conduct disorder scales was used to collect data and the data obtained were calculated through multivariate analysis of variance.

The results confirmed the effect of moral intelligence training on reducing conduct disorder scores and its components in the experimental group (p<0.05).

According to the results of this research, it is suggested that the managers and workers of the welfare offices in order to improve the environment of the correctional centers as much as possible, improve the morals among the students through the training of moral intelligencencer.