EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MORAL INTELLIGENCE AND TEACHING STYLES AMONG URMIAUNIVERSITY FACULTIES

University is one of the most important institution in every human society, and
the students were experienced their socialization process through faculties formal and informal
educational classes. It is why, in many cases, society's expectations of higher education systems are to
develop moral intelligence than the professional development. Therefore the purpose of this research
is to explore the relationship between Moral Intelligence and Teaching styles of Urmia University
faculties members.
Materials & Methods: This is a correlational descriptive survey. The research participants were all
412 faculty members of Urmia University from which 156 samples were selected by stratified random
sampling method. Research instruments were Lennick & Kiel's (2011) moral intelligence
questionnaire and Grasha (1996) teaching styles questionnaires. Their reliability has been calculated
by using cronbach coefficient, and the results respectively were 0/94 and 0/855. ; Descriptive statistics
method, Pearson correlation coefficient and , two independent sample T-test and analysis of variance
and regression tests have been applied to analyze the data by using SPSS 16 software.
Results: According to the findings, there is a positive and significance correlation between moral
intelligence and teaching styles. There was no significant relationship between teaching styles and,
moral intelligence between the faculty members’ point of view considering their gender.
Conclusion: By adopting appropriate teaching styles in classroom, the students Moral Intelligence
level could be raised