The Effect of Teaching Religious Doctrines (Based on Makarem Al-Akhlaq Prayer) on University Students’ Moral Intelligence

This study was carried out to investigate the effect of teaching religious doctrines (based on Makarem Al-Akhlaq Prayer) on the moral intelligence of students in Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz. The statistical population consisted of all the students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz who were selected through multistage random sampling from different faculties of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz. They were divided into two groups of 20 participants in control and experimental groups. However, after the reduction in the number of the subjects (due to class interference), the test was finally administered to 15 subjects in the experimental group and 19 subjects in the control group. The instrument used was Lennick and Kiel’s moral competence questionnaire. The experimental group received 10 sessions of teaching religious doctrines based on Makarem Al-Akhlaq Prayer. The results of the study were analyzed through ANOVA on the difference between post-test and pretest scores at the significance level of p <0.05. The results showed that teaching religious doctrines based on Makarem Al-Akhlaq Prayer resulted in a significant increase in the components of moral intelligence in the experimental group, but there was no significant difference between the two groups in the truthfulness component.