Purpose: Teaching the components of moral intelligence is one of the important components of child and adolescent education that can help the personal and social development of children and adolescents, so the present study aims the effect of moral intelligence on psychological hardiness and social adaptation of students.
Materials and Methods: The research method was a semi-experimental pre-test-post-test type with a control group. From the research population, which included all seventh-grade female students of the first secondary school in Do Baharestan district in the academic year 2022-2023, 30 people were randomly selected in two experimental groups (15 people) and the control group (15 people) ) were placed. The research tools were psychological toughness questionnaire by Kiyamrie et al. (1998) and Sinha and Singh social adjustment (1993). The experimental group received training on the components of moral intelligence, in eleven 60-minute sessions twice a week, but the control group did not receive any intervention. To analyze the data, mean and standard deviation and multivariate and univariate covariance analysis methods were used with the help of SPSS version 24 software.
Results: The results showed that by controlling the effect of the pre-test in the variables of psychological toughness and social adjustment, there is a significant difference between the post-test average in the experimental group and the control group (P<0.05).
Conclusion: Teaching the components of moral intelligence improved psychological hardiness and promoted social adaptation of students. Based on the results of teaching the components of moral intelligence to students, it is an effective intervention method to promote psychological hardiness and social adaptation of students.