Abstract:
The current study aims at identifying the contribution of moral intelligence
to predict the quality of friendship among the students of Minia University.
This study is based on a sample of 263 sophomore students. The researcher
has developed a list of moral intelligence and a scale of friendship quality that
are adopted as the testing tools in the research. The findings of the study show
that there is a significantly positive relationship between the scores of the
participants on the list of moral intelligence with its dimensions and the scale
of friendship quality. In addition, there are statistically significant differences
between the scores’ mean of males and females – in favor of females – in the
dimensions of the moral intelligence, such as sympathy, conscience, fairness,
and respect. In contrast, the differences are in favor of males in the dimension
of self-control. The research also indicates that there are no significant
differences between the male and female scores’ mean in both tolerance and
empathy, as well as in terms of rural and city residents in the moral intelligence
regarding the dimensions of sympathy, conscience, tolerance, empathy,
fairness, respect, and the overall score. As for the dimension of self-control,
there are differences between the mean scores of the rural residents and the
city residents in favor of the rural residents. The research finally concludes
that the moral intelligence significantly contributes to predicting the quality of
friendship in the study sample.