Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and Emotional Reactions in Nurses of Tehran University Hospitals

Stress is one of the effective factors on performance of personnel in organizations, which endangered health and hygiene of many personnel. Stress is directly related to individual’s performance and it is one of the health components, immunity, and comfort for people. This research was a descriptive correlation study. In this study 270 Of Nurses in hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences were purposely selected. Instruments were the demographic questionnaire, questionnaire of spiritual intelligence and DASS questionnaire. Questionnaires were administered to the nurses of three shifts (morning, evening and night shift). The results showed that spiritual Intelligence is correlated to emotional reactions of nurses. By enhancing and reinforcing virtues such as spiritual Intelligence nurses can protect themselves from an inevitable toxic effect of job stressors, so they can effectively take care of their patients.