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 crosssectional 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 20142015, 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 selfdifferentiation. 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.