The effectiveness of moral intelligence skills training on adjustment (emotional, educational, social) in bully students

Abstract

Background: Research has shown that moral intelligence skill training has effective impacts on emotional, educational, and social adjustment, but could these trainings be also effective on bully students? Aims: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of moral intelligence skills training on adjustment (emotional, educational, social) in bully students. Method: The research method was a quasi-experimental design with control group. The statistical population of the study included all high school students of the city of Ardabil in the academic year 2018-2019. 40 students were selected by using cluster random sampling and were randomly assigned to the experimental (20 individuals) and control groups (20 individuals). The experimental group received 11 sessions of Borba (2005) moral intelligence skills training. To collecte data, Sinha and Sing (1993) Adjustment Questionnaire and Olweus (1998) Bully/victim Questionnaire-revised were used. Data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance. Results: The results showed that bully students in the experimental group had significantly more adjustment (emotional, educational, social) than the students in the control group in the post-test (p<0/01). Conclusions: Therefore, moral intelligence skills training can be used to increase adjustment of bully (emotional, educational, social) students.

Keywords

• moral intelligence skills
• adjustment
• bully students