Moral Intelligence and its Relationship with Professional Performance among Intellectual Education Teachers in Primary School

Abstract

The research objectives of this work are: (1) to investigate the relationship between moral intelligence and professional performance among intellectual education teachers at primary schools in Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia, and (2) to draw comparisons between male and female teachers in terms of moral intelligence and professional performance. The data was collected from a sample of 191 male and female teachers at primary schools in Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia, in 2022. The moral intelligence scale and professional performance scale were applied to participants and data were analyzed using professional performance; Pearson correlation coefficient; and T-test. The results revealed several findings: (1) there is a significant positive relationship between the scores of the study sample according to the moral intelligence scale and their scores according to the professional performance scale, and (2) there are significant differences between male and female teachers in terms of both moral intelligence and professional performance, particularly among female teachers.