The Effectiveness of Moral Intelligence Group Training on the Conduct Disorder of Female Students: Moral Intelligence and Students' Conduct Disorder

Aims: The Aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of moral intelligence training on reducing the symptoms of behavioral disorder in students of Gorgan educational and behavioral welfare improvement center. Materials and Methods: The research included a quasi-experimental method with the pretest-posttest design and the control group. The study population consisted of of the educational center, and correction of welfare behaviors in 2017. The sample size is 50 people (including 25 subjects in experimental group and 25 controls in control group). Sampling method was randomly assigned to two groups of control and tested, and after selecting based on age and education, each group was subjected to moral intelligence and conduct disorder pre-test. After that, during the two months of training, moral intelligence was conducted and after completing the training, simultaneously and in the same conditions, the post-test was performed, the analysis method. The moral intelligence and conduct disorder scales was used to collect data and the data obtained were calculated through multivariate analysis of variance (MANCOVA). Results: The results approved the effect of moral intelligence training on reducing conduct disorder scores and its components in the experimental group. Conclusion: According to the results, the moral intelligence training is recommended to reduce the symptoms of conduct disorder in development and improvement of behavioral welfare students