Prediction of Job Stress Based on Spiritual Intelligence and Self-Differentiation

Background and Objectives: Job stress is not always caused directly by the stressful sources, but it results more from the way in which those sources are perceived. Therefore, a lot of factors are effective in job stress. As such, the present study was done to predict the job stress based on spiritual intelligence and self-diffrentiation of teachers of exceptional children in the town of Shahriar. Methods: It is a cross-sectional and analytical study. The population of this study consisted of all teachers of exceptional children in the town of Shahriar in the academic year of 2014-2015, from whom 120 individuals were selected by cluster sampling method. Data were collected using Ospiw’s job stress questionnaire, Bowen’s self-diffrentiation questionnaire and King’s spiritual intelligence questionnaire. The data were analyzed using simultaneous regression and SPSS software. Results: The results showed that there was a negative relationship between job stress and self-differentiation, and also a significant negative relationship was found between spiritual intelligence and job stress (p<0.01). Moreover, the analysis of data in simultaneous regression showed that the predictor variables can predict about 41.7 of job stress variance. Conclusion: Job stress is predictable based on spiritual intelligence and self-differentiation. Therefore, drawing the actual goals and values is attainable, playing meanwhile an effective role in learners’ learning in future performance and job far from any conflict.