Happiness and its relation to moral intelligence among a sample of basic school students in AL-Karama fundamental schools at the central Jordan Valley area.

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Associate Professor - Department of Curriculum and Teaching Methods Faculty of Education - Jerash University.

2 Assistant Professor - Department of Curriculum and Teaching Methods Faculty of Education - Jerash University.

Abstract

        The study aimed to identify the happiness and its relation to moral intelligence among a sample of basic school students at  the central Jordan Valley, The researcher used the descriptive Correlation approach The study sample consisted of 350 male and female students, The researcher used the happiness and moral intelligence scale, The results indicated that the level of happiness among the study sample was moderte, the result also showed there is apositive relationship between happiness and moral intelligence .moreover there were no significant differences in the level of happiness and moral intelligence attributed to the impact of gender   variable while there were differences in the level of happiness due to the impact of class differences and the differences were in favor of the primary third grade, In light of the findings the researcher recommended that  the need to work on instilling Islamic values ​​among students to be able to keep up with the times and open up to the world on the conservative values ​​and habits derived from Islamic law.
 

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