المشكلات السلوكية و علاقتها بالذكاء الأخلاقي لدى المراهقين

Abstract EN

The study aimed to identify the relationship between behavioral problems and moral intelligence of adolescents.

The sample consisted of (257) adolescents, 84 males and 173 females.

The study used adolescents' moral intelligence scale and adolescents' behavioral problems scale prepared by the researcher.

The results of the study showed the most behavioral problems are spread among adolescents and they are in order from the most common to the least as follows : emotional problems with an average of 2.37, family problems with an average of 2.21, educational problems with an average of 2.14, social problems with an average of 2.05, and the last problems is related to systems, customs and traditions with an average weight of 1.85.The results showed negative relationship between behavioral problems and moral intelligence of adolescents in most dimensions and the total score.

There were statistically significant differences in the average score of behavior problems according to the type of adolescents in favor of males in the total score and all dimensions except family problems where there were differences between malles and females.

The results also showed that there were statistically significant differences in the average score of behavioral problems according to the variable of adolescents' father and mother education in favor of the higher educational level.

And there were statistically significance differences according to the variable of mother's work (work - do not work) in the average scores of problems related to systems and values and the differences were in favor of the adolescents of working women, and there were no differences in the other dimensions of behavioral problems due to the work of the mother.

The results showed the ability of moral intelligence to predict all behavioral problems of adolescents.