The Level of Moral Intelligence and Its Relationship to The Level of Marital Compatibility from The Perspective of Islamic Education (A Field Study on A Sample of Newly Married Couples in Egyptian Society)

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Assistant Professor of Islamic Education - Faculty of Education for Boys in Cairo - Al-Azhar University.

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The study aimed to reveal the level of moral intelligence and its relationship to the level of marital compatibility from the perspective of Islamic education among a sample of newly married couples in Egyptian society. The study used the descriptive method and relied on the moral intelligence scale and the marital compatibility scale developed by the researcher for data collection. The study was conducted on a sample of (462) newly married individuals who had been married for no more than one year and were enrolled in the educational rehabilitation program at the Faculty of Education, Al-Azhar University in Cairo. The sample was distributed according to (gender, place of residence, and educational level of spouses) variables. The results indicated that the level of moral intelligence was medium in all dimensions, and that the level of marital compatibility was high in all dimensions except for the religious dimension, which was medium. The results also indicated the existence of a direct correlation between the level of moral intelligence and the level of marital compatibility, and that marital compatibility can be predicted through the level of moral intelligence. In addition, the results indicated that there are no statistically significant differences in the responses of the study sample members referred to the gender variable, while there are statistically significant differences in their responses referred to the variable of place of residence in favor of those residing in the countryside. There are also statistically significant differences in their responses referred to the variable of educational level in favor of the spouses with a high education.

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