Investigating the relationship between principals moral intelligence and their servant leadership in Miandoab s schools with a focus on gender

This inquiry was carried out to investigate the relationship between the principals’ moral intelligence and their servant leadership in Miandoab’s schools. The study was a descriptive-correlational one. The research population included 179 male and female principals of primary, secondary, and high school in Miandoab. The sample comprised 122 principals, 75 male and 47 female principals, who were chosen through categorical ratio method based on Cochrams sampling formula. Regarding servant leadership of each principle, three teachers in his/her school completed the related questionnaire. This means that totally 366 teachers completed the questionnaire. The data were gathered through two questionnaires of moral intelligence and servant leadership. The face validity, content validity, and internal consistency of both questionnaires were verified by the experts. The Chronbach Alpha for the moral intelligence and servant leadership questionnaires was 0.92 and 0.97 respectively. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS software conducting descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, independent T-test, and standard multiple regression analyses. The results showed that there was a positive significant relationship between the principals’ moral intelligence and its components with their servant leadership in Miandoab’s schools. The obtained results of regression analysis showed that among the four factors of moral intelligence, compassion had a more predictable vaue for the principals’ servant leadership in Miandoab’s schools. Also, the results of T-test revealed that there was no significant relationship between male and female principals’ moral intelligence and their servant leadership.