The Effect of Moral Intelligence Group Training Through Reading Stories on Behavioral Problems and Social Competence of Children's

The present study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of group training in moral intelligence through reading stories on children's behavioral problems and social competence. The method of this research was semi-experimental and a pre-test-post-test research design with a control group. The statistical population included all 346 female students of the fourth grade of Kochesfhan City in the academic year of 2022-2023, of which a sample of 48 qualified volunteers was selected by sampling available and They were randomly placed in two groups of 24 people. Both groups completed the Questionnaires of Behavioral Problems (QBP) by Quay and Patterson (1987) and Social Competence (SCQ) by Fellner & et al (1990). The experimental group was subjected to the moral intelligence training protocol (MITP) by Frank and Burba (2014) for 12 sessions (50 minutes each session). The data was analyzed using multivariate covariance analysis method. The results showed that by controlling the pre-test effect, there is a significant difference between the post-test mean of behavioral problems and social competence of children in the two groups at the 0.001 level. Therefore, to reduce behavioral problems and increase social competence in children it is effective to use the intervention of teaching moral intelligence in the way of reading stories.