Moral Intelligence and Bullying At Junior High School

Abstract

There are many cases of bullying at junior high school level. Every school are now inclusive school because of the diverse culture, socioeconomic status, and students with various special needs. The diversity makes students look different. This is actually an opportunity for students to hone tolerance, or as opposite a high risk for occurrence of bullying. Therefore bullying is related to moral intelligence. If students can show empathy, they tend to think wisely and act positive. Coversely, those who bully others are students who lack kindness and act to suppres their peers. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between moral intelligence and bullying in junior high school students. The method used is quantitative with a correlational design. The subject were 300 junior high school students, boys and girls. The research used Moral Competency Inventory (MCI) scale and Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire (OBVQ) scale to collect the data, and data were analyzed using person product moment correlation. The results show negative and significant relationship between moral intelligence and bullying behavior in junior high school students with a correlation value of –0.633 and a significant value of 0.001.
 Keywords: moral intelligence, bullying, junior high school student