A study of the conception and components of spiritual intelligence and developing an instrument to assess it

Spiritual intelligence encompasses a set of abilities and capacities that use spiritual resources to increase individual well-being and adaptability. Due to differences in how to express the spiritual intelligence of different cultures, this research seeks to explain spiritual intelligence components based on the Iranian culture in order to provide appropriate instrument for measuring those components. To this end, first principles theoretical study of library research conducted on spiritual intelligence and spiritual intelligence components to describe the culture ofIran, the main religious texts of the dominant culture ofIranwere studied and a total of eight components were extracted. The questionnaire including ۱۰۸ questions was compiled to measure each of these factors on sample ۵۵۷ people with cluster sampling method. After removal of ۱۱ questions with load factor of less than ۰/۴, total reliability of final questionnaire (۹۷ questions) was ۰/۹۸. In order to provide factorial structure of the questionnaire, the exploratory factor analysis was used and the result of study indicated that four factors explained ۴۸/۳۹ percent of the total variance of the questionnaire. To explain the factors extracted in the analysis of main components which were above the line gradient, named as transcendent consciouness, spiritual experience, tolerance and forgiveness.

کلیدواژه ها:

Spiritual Intelligence ، factor analysis ، Reliability ، هوش معنوی ، تحلیل عاملی ، پایائی