English abstract
The study aimed to examine the level of moral intelligence among normal hearing students and hearing impaired students aged between (15- 18) years, as well as identifying any differences in dimensions of the moral intelligence between the two groups. Also, it aimed to discover differences in moral intelligence dimensions according to health status, gender, age, economic level, and severity of the disability. Moral Intelligence Scale was constructed by the researcher and used on a sample of (279) of hearing impaired and normal hearing students, it consisted 200 of the normal hearing students; 100 males and 100 females, comprising 79 hearing impaired students; 45 males and 34 females. The results of the study revealed the following:
- The level of moral intelligences in the hearing disabilities and normal hearing students was high as respect dimension was the highest level, and the least level was fairness dimension.
- There were significant differences at (0.05) in moral intelligence and some dimensions such as: empathy, conscience and self-control between hearing students and hearing disabilities students, in favor for hearing students.
There were no statistically significant differences between hearing and hearing disabilities in respect and fairness dimensions.
- There was a statistically significant interaction between health status and gender in self-Control and tolerance dimensions, and there was no statistically significant interaction in the rest of the dimensions.
- There was a statistically significant interaction between health status and age in the total score of moral intelligence and in empathy and self-control dimensions. There were no statistically significant interactions in the rest of dimensions.
- There were significant differences at (0.05) in the total score of moral intelligence for students with hearing disabilities, in favor of middle disability of hearing. No differences were found in the all dimensions.
- There were no significant differences in all moral intelligence dimensions of the study based on the participants economic level variable except tolerance dimensions.
