Journal of FARM SCIENCES, Vol 31, No 1 (2018)

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Inter-relation between moral judgment and spiritual intelligence of high school children

PRIYA KUMARI, P. B. KHADI

Abstract


Inter-relation between moral judgment and spiritual intelligence of high school children was studied on a sampleof 72 adolescents of 13 to 16 years studying in 8th to 10th standards in Government and Private schools from urban area andGovernment schools from rural area of Dharwad taluk, Karnataka. Gupta’s (2010) Moral Judgment Test and Singh et.al’s(2006) Spiritual Intelligence Test were used. Chi square was used to know the association between levels of moral judgmentand spiritual intelligence as well as by age and gender. Higher percentage(86.1%) of children had moderate level of moraljudgment while the rest had high level . The spiritual intelligence of children was in higher proportion(59.7%) in averagelevel while 34.7 per cent had high level and only 5.6 per cent children fell in low category. Significant association betweenmoral judgment and spiritual intelligence was observed. Children with high spiritual intelligence had high moral judgmentability. There was no significant association between age and gender with level of moral judgement nor spiritual intelligence.

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