Investigating the Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and Mental Health of Employees of Islamic Azad University of West Azerbaijan

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between spiritual intelligence and mental health among employees of Islamic Azad University of West Azerbaijan. The research method is descriptive-correlation. The population of the study was 1300 employees of Azad university of West Azerbaijan. By using Morgan table the sample size obtained 297. The King Questionnaire (2008) and the Goldberg and Hill Questionnaire (1987) were used to measure mental health for measuring spiritual intelligence. Validity of the questionnaire was verified by 7 professors and the manager of the field of management. The reliability of the questionnaires was 0.84 and 0.91, respectively. Pearson correlation test was used to analyze the data. The results show that there is a positive and significant relationship with the performance of staff at Azad University of Azerbaijan between spiritual intelligence and its components, namely critical thinking (p <0.05), the production of personal meaning (p <0.05), transcendental consciousness (p <0.05), and the extension of consciousness P <0.05).