Effectiveness of Spiritual Intelligence in Resilience and Responsibility of Students

Background: Spiritual intelligence is one of the important and influential variables in many psychological characteristics includ-ing resilience and responsibility. Objectives: Based thereon, the present study was conducted with the objective of determining the e ectiveness of spiritual intelli-gence training in responsibility and resilience of secondary high school students in the city of Baghmalek. Methods: The present study was a semi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design and experimental/control groups. The research population included all secondary high school students from Baghmalek city during 2017 - 2018. Finally, 60 students were selected by the multistage cluster sampling method and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Data collection was done using the Connor-Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC) and Kordlou’s responsibility questionnaire. The experimental group participated in eight 90-min sessions for spiritual intelligence instruction while the control group was placed in a waiting list and did not receive any instructions. After the termination of the sessions, both of the groups were subjected to posttest. Results: The results indicated that there was a linear significant relationship between the pretest and posttest scores of resilience (F = 56.32, P < 0.001) and the pretest and posttest scores of responsibility (F = 12.98, P = 0.004) in the experimental and control groups. The results of univariate analysis for resilience (F = 15.55, P < 0.001) and responsibility (F = 7.14, P = 0.016) as dependent variables were found significant. Thus, spiritual intelligence instruction increased resilience and responsibility in students. Conclusions: Spiritual intelligence training could be an appropriate interventional method for enhancing the students’ responsi-bility and resilience considering the society’s need for committed and flexible students who can resist problems and challenges.