The relationship between spiritual intelligence and personality traits among Jordanian university students

Abstract

This study was aimed at identifying the level of spiritual intelligence and its correlation with personality traits among a group of Jordanian undergraduate students. A purposive sample of 716 male and female students was chosen from different faculties at the Hashemite University. Two questionnaires on spiritual intelligence and personality traits were distributed to members of the sample during the academic year 2013–2014. Results illustrated a medium level of spiritual intelligence in students, and indicated a positive and statistically significant relationship between spiritual intelligence dimensions (critical existential thinking, personal meaning production, transcendental awareness, and conscious state expansion) and personality traits (neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness), but no significant correlation between personal meaning production and transcendental awareness dimensions and neuroticism personality traits. Finally, regression analysis results indicate that critical existential thinking is the first predictor dimension of spiritual intelligence in terms of neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. In the light of the results of this study, many recommendations were written by the researchers.

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“…This finding can be explained by the fact that men are more interested in political and theoretical aspects, while women tend to attach greater importance to aesthetic, social, and religious aspects. However, in a study by Mahasneh, et al (2015), women and men were similar in terms of spiritual intelligence, which is in contrast with the present study (12). The observed discrepancy might be due to differences among the study samples and cultural circumstances.…”

“…The cutoff point of this scale has not been mentioned in other studies. Overall, higher scores represent higher levels of spiritual intelligence (12).…”

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“…Estudios previos han demostrado que mejores niveles de inteligencia espiritual están relacionados con disminución de niveles de ansiedad, depresión (18) y a ciertos tipos de personalidad (28) , que pueden hacer que una persona maneje, de mejor o peor manera, a los estresores de vida diaria. En estas circunstancias, las personas consideran que la situación es más amenazadora cuando ven que sus habilidades no están a la altura de las demandas de una tarea determinada, pero si creen que tienen los recursos necesarios para satisfacer las demandas, entonces la tarea se convierte en un reto (8) .…”

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“…Spiritual Intelligence or SQ, on the other hand, is an internal factor which can be developed [11] and has influence on one's motivation, self-efficacy and tolerance. Although the name 'Spiritual' may indicate religiosity, but SQ is not, however, it is related to religion [12].…”