The Relationship between Psychological Lifestyle and Spiritual Intelligence among Women

Background: According to Adler, lifestyle reflects the individual’s unique, unconscious, and repetitive way of responding to or avoiding main living routines: friendship, love, work, spirituality, family, and self-acceptance. Lifestyle is related to spirituality, as well as the life solutions chosen by a person. Objectives: The present study aimed to examine the relationship between psychological lifestyle and spiritual intelligence in women. Methods: In this descriptive-correlational study, all the women referred to counseling centers and health clinics in districts five and six of Tehran in ۲۰۲۰. The participants were ۴۰۰ women who met our inclusion criteria and volunteered to participate in the study, chosen by the convenience sampling method. For calculating the sample size, we used the Cochran formula. The data were collected using the Self-Report Measure of Spiritual Intelligence (King & DeCicco, ۲۰۰۹) and Adlerian-Based Lifestyle Assessment (Curlette, Wheeler, & Kern, ۱۹۹۳) tools. The collected data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation test by SPSS ۱۶. Results:: The results indicated that ۳۲% of the women were ۲۶ to ۳۰ years old, ۳۸.۷۵% of them had a diploma, and ۳۵.۲% had two children. The findings showed a significant and positive relationship between lifestyle and spiritual intelligence (P<۰.۰۱), indicating that the higher a person’s lifestyle score was, the higher his/her level of spiritual intelligence would be. Conclusion: Studies have shown that lifestyle, a sense of belonging, going along, taking charge, wanting recognition, and being cautious, plays a decisive role throughout a person’s social, professional, marital, and physical lives, as well as his/her spiritual intelligence. Our findings can be used for educating, guiding, and counseling women to appropriately modify their life styles

کلیدواژه ها:

lifestyle ، spiritual intelligence ، women