scholarly journals Spiritual Intelligence: a Structural Perspective

Pedagogika ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 123 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-22
Author(s):  
Palmira Jucevičienė ◽  
Sandrita Škėrienė
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Conscious State ◽  
Spiritual Intelligence ◽  
Personal Meaning ◽  
Abstract Reasoning ◽  
State Expansion ◽  
Reasoning Problem ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
Structural Perspective

This paper aims to bring more clarity into the structure of spiritual intelligence. This construct integrates the meanings of both spirituality and intelligence. The definitions of intelligence have strong emphasis on capacities and higher level abilities (such as abstract reasoning, problem solving and decision making). Many definitions of spirituality represent it as a holistic, multidimensional human phenomenon that transcends the physical, social, and psychological being. Spirituality, as seen from the perspective of intelligence, has to be understood as distinct from religiousness. Various authors provide different definitions of spiritual intelligence. The analysis of literature sources has shown that the concept of spirituality is very broad, but it has to be narrowed down when integrated with the concept of intelligence into the construct of spiritual intelligence because the spirituality becomes a feature of the intelligence as an ability. It means that spirituality should both retain its own essence and to meet the criteria of intelligence. Therefore, the following structure of spiritual intelligence, offered by D. B. King (2008) emerges as the most appropriate: critical existential thinking, personal meaning production, transcendental awareness, and conscious state expansion.

scholarly journals Profile of emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence of adolescents from divorced families

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Ahmad Bunayya Irsandef ◽  
Taufik Taufik ◽  
Netrawati Netrawati
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Conscious State ◽  
Spiritual Intelligence ◽  
Personal Meaning ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Divorced Families ◽  
State Expansion ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
Research Findings

<p>This research aims to reveal the emotional intelligence of adolescents from divorced families in terms of self-awareness, self-regulation, self-motivation, empathy, and social skills, and spiritual intelligence seen from the aspects of critical existential thinking, personal meaning production, trancendental awareness, and conscious state expansion. This research is descriptive, with research subjects being adolescents from divorced families in the Padang City, amounting to 30 people. The instrument used was a questionnaire with a Likert scale model. The data obtained were analyzed using percentage techniques. The research findings regarding emotional intelligence show that most adolescents from divorced families in Padang City have moderate emotional intelligence. Based on the aspects of emotional intelligence it was found that most of them had moderate self-awareness, self-regulation, self-motivation, empathy, and social skills. The research findings regarding spiritual intelligence show that most adolescents from divorced families in Padang City have moderate spiritual intelligence. Based on the aspect of spiritual intelligence it was found that most of them had moderate critical existential thinking, personal meaning production, transcendental awareness, and conscious state expansion.</p>

scholarly journals A Study of Spiritual Intelligence among Graduate Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sushma Kotnala
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Conscious State ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Spiritual Intelligence ◽  
Self Report ◽  
State Expansion ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Meaning Production

The major aim of the study was to find out spiritual intelligence among graduate students. A total of 60 students; 30 males and 30 female students were selected using non probability purposive sampling technique. The age range of all the subjects was between 19-24 years. All the subjects were assessed on the Spiritual Intelligence Self Report Inventory (SISRI- 24) to analyze the spiritual intelligence of both the groups of students. Descriptive analysis of the data was done to obtain Mean and Standard Deviation. Independent sample t-test was used to find out the significant difference between the performance of boys and girls on different spiritual dimension. The findings of the study revealed that there is no significant difference between male and female students on Conscious State Expansion, Critical Existential Thinking, Personal Meaning Production and Transcendental Awareness of Spiritual Intelligence Self Report Inventory (SISRI-24). The study concluded that there is no gender difference on spiritual intelligence.

scholarly journals Role of BMI in Spiritual Intelligence, Narcissism, and Body Image of College Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Swati Agarwal ◽  
K. V. N. Tanmayi
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Conscious State ◽  
Spiritual Intelligence ◽  
State Expansion ◽  
Correlational Design ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
And Gender

Spiritual intelligence is our capacity for developing meaning, vision and value and allows us to dream and to strive. Narcissism is characterized by indulgence in excessive self-love, selfishness, feelings of superiority, disregard for others, lack of empathy, illusions of grandiosity, and the use of people for one’s self gain. Body image relates to a person’s perceptions, feelings and thoughts about his or her body. A 3x2 factorial design was employed to observe the main and interaction effects of BMI (low, normal and high) and gender on spiritual intelligence, narcissism and body image in college students. Further, a correlational design was used to determine the predictors of the dimensions of body image from spiritual intelligence and narcissism. A non probability purposive sampling technique was used to gather data from 360 college students (180 boys and 180 girls) of low, normal and high BMI. There was a significant influence of BMI on fatness evaluation and negative effect. Significant gender differences were seen in some of the dimensions of all the three variables. Also, interaction effect between BMI and gender were reported in certain cases. Results also showed that spiritual intelligence, critical existential thinking, personal meaning production, transcendental awareness, conscious state expansion and narcissism were found to be significant predictors of various criterion variables. Spiritual intelligence can be explored in more than one population in order to gain a better understanding of its influence over body image. Based on the results of the current research study, interventions could be designed which aim at enhancing the understanding of spirituality and spiritual intelligence. This would, in turn, contribute to the fostering of a desirable body image in college students.

scholarly journals PELATIHAN KECERDASAN SPIRITUAL DAN KECERDASAN EMOSIONAL UNTUK MENINGKATKAN PERILAKU PEDULI PARA PERAWAT

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38
Author(s):  
Benita Koesmarsono ◽  
Triandini Paramita ◽  
Frikson C. Sinambela
Keyword(s):  
Conscious State ◽  
Personal Meaning ◽  
State Expansion ◽  
Caring Behavior ◽  
Meaning Production

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan perilaku kepedulian perawat di Rumah Sakit X melalui pelatihan kecerdasan spiritual dan kecerdasan emosional. Aspek kecerdasan spiritual yang diberikan adalah critical existential thinking, personal meaning production, transcendental awareness dan conscious state expansion. Aspek kecerdasan emosional yang diberikan dalam pelatihan adalah perception of emotion, use of emotion to facilitate thoughts, understanding emotion, dan manage emotion. Konsep yang digunakan untuk membuat pelatihan adalah experiencing learning. Peserta pelatihan sebanyak 13 perawat yang bekerja di ruang gawat darurat, ruang rawat jalan dan ruang rawat inap. Desain penelitian ini adalah one-group pretest-posttest design. Perilaku kepedulian perawat diukur menggunakan Caring Behavior Inventory. Hasil penelitian ini berdasarkan analisis kuantitatif menunjukkan bahwa terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan antara sebelum dan sesudah dilakukan pelatihan. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa pelatihan kecerdasan spiritual dan kecerdasan emosional efektif untuk meningkatkan perilaku kepedulian pada perawat di Rumah Sakit X.

scholarly journals Assistant Professor, P.G Dept. of English, St Cyril’s College, Adoor Kerala

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suprava Mohanty
Keyword(s):  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Conscious State ◽  
Spiritual Intelligence ◽  
Late Adolescent ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
State Expansion ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
Better Than

Self-identity is an important life skill of adolescents. Researchers have observed that the skill of reflecting on the experiences of life, which is related to one’s spiritual intelligence, is helpful in the development of positive self-identity. Hence, the present research was carried out to understand the development of spiritual intelligence and self-identity among adolescent boys and girls and thereby examine the mediating role of spiritual intelligence in the development of self-identity. Participants in the study were 360 college students in equal numbers from boys and girls belonging to early, middle, and late adolescent period. Four-core abilities of spiritual intelligence namely; critical existential thinking, personal meaning production, transcendental awareness, and conscious state expansion were measured. Like-wise, personal, relational, social, and collective self-identities were measured. The results showed that girls are better than boys in the development of both spiritual intelligence and positive self-identity. Further, spiritual intelligence significantly and positively predicted each of the domains of self-identity.

Relationship Between Spiritual Intelligence and Ethical Decision Making in Iranian Nurses

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-341
Author(s):  
Shahram Arsang-Jang ◽  
Ashraf Khoramirad ◽  
Davoud Pourmarzi ◽  
Marziyeh Raisi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Spiritual Intelligence ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Personal Meaning ◽  
Practical Consideration ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
The Mean

Background: Nurses, on a daily basis, face ethical dilemmas that arise from situations involving conflicting values or beliefs. Overall, ethical decision making of nurses seems to be a challenging aspect of their duties. This study has examined the relationship between spiritual intelligence and ethical decision making in nurses working in hospitals in Iran. Proportional stratified sampling was used in this study. Data were collected from 376 nurses who completed the Spiritual Intelligence Self-Report Inventory (SISRI) and Nursing Dilemma Test. Statistical analyses were done using descriptive statistics and Pearson correlations. Findings: The mean spiritual intelligence score was 49.5 ± 14.6, and mean ± SD of the Nursing Principled Thinking was 52.8 ± 12.1 and Practical Consideration was 28.16 ± 7.6. The mean score in the postconventional level was higher than the two other levels. Significant negative correlations exist between the preconventional component of the Nursing Dilemma Test and Personal Meaning Production and the Critical Existential Thinking components of the SISRI ( p < .05). There were significant positive correlations between the postconventional (Nursing Principled) and Critical Existential Thinking, Personal Meaning Production, and total score of the SISRI. Conclusion: Hence, we have concluded that spiritual intelligence plays a positive role in the ethical decision making of nurses.

Spirituality and Productivity - A Relationship Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soni Vivek ◽  
Amrith V.
Keyword(s):  
Regression Models ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Conscious State ◽  
Spiritual Intelligence ◽  
Personal Meaning ◽  
Organizational Productivity ◽  
Good Level ◽  
Productivity Function ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
Task Accomplishment

Spirituality and its practices are the real gems of value additions in the human life, they helps in building a strong foundation and getting a greater clarity. Spirituality is not a limited concept but expansive like a vast blue ocean. Spirituality, being currently becoming an attracting trend when considered with organizations, many of the organizations prefer in deploying spiritual functions and practices aiming for a good level of perspicacity and growth in their future forecasts and operations for the enablement of delivering a good level of productivity. This study aims at examining the connectivity existence or non-existence between some organizational productivity factors that directly or indirectly contributes to productivity levels and the factors of spiritual intelligence. For the study a controlled experiment was conducted, the 4 factors of spiritual intelligence such as Critical Existential Thinking, Personal Meaning Production, Transcendental awareness, Conscious State of Expansion was considered and measured by taking an organization after that 4 factors that contributes directly or indirectly to productivity function such as Ability to address day to day Variations ,Adherence in task accomplishment at extreme workload scenarios with equanimity, Consistency level in Benchmark achievement or meeting the provided/ defined target levels, ability in performance beyond the expected level in logical Operations were consulted and measured. After this a pairing was made with a deep look of these factors and each pair consisted of different predictors and a response variables, 4 regression models were developed in Minitab with these in order to check whether there was any connectivity/relationship existence between any one of the factors between the grouped four pairs each (i.e. to check at least 1 predictor - response relationship existence was there or not in all 4 regression models developed). The result signalled the existence of relationship between at least 3 factors to at most 5 factors in all the model, marking a green signal of relationship existences.

Preventing Compassion Fatigue Amongst Pastors: The Influence of Spiritual Intelligence and Intrinsic Motivation

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 247-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin John Snelgar ◽  
Michelle Renard ◽  
Stacy Shelton
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
South African ◽  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Secondary Traumatic Stress ◽  
Spiritual Intelligence ◽  
Personal Meaning ◽  
Partial Support ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Meaning Production

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether spiritual intelligence and intrinsic motivation can act as antecedents to compassion fatigue. This study will prove useful to pastors who wish to lower the levels of burnout and secondary traumatic stress that stem from their work in ministry. The study reviews a sample of 273 South African pastors across four denominations and demonstrates partial support for relationships between spiritual intelligence and intrinsic motivation with not only compassion fatigue, but also its factors of burnout and secondary traumatic stress. The two factors of compassion fatigue do, however, both relate positively to critical existential thinking and negatively with personal meaning production, therefore suggesting that different elements of spiritual intelligence play varying roles in reducing or aggravating compassion fatigue. Burnout can be reduced through increased intrinsic motivation to work in the ministry, and so this study provides recommendations to assist pastors in overcoming compassion fatigue.

scholarly journals Educação financeira e as contribuições do pensamento computacional em uma proposta de atividade voltada à tomada de decisão

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Ana Karina Cancian Baroni ◽  
Eliel Constantino da Silva ◽  
Marcus Vinícius Maltempi ◽  
Sueli Liberatti Javaroni
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Financial Education ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Financial Decision Making ◽  
Reasoning Problem ◽  
Financial Decision ◽  
Idea Organization

Resumo: Neste artigo trazemos uma atividade voltada à tomada de decisão em Educação Financeira, realizada no ambiente Scratch. Identificamos e valorizamos as contribuições do Pensamento Computacional no processo de elaboração da atividade, diante da sua relação com o raciocínio e os processos de pensamento. O objetivo é discutir como a Matemática e as discussões financeiras se fazem presentes, a partir de uma atividade que considera o Pensamento Computacional como um caminho para a tomada de decisão, de forma reflexiva e crítica. A análise da atividade, em conjunto com as contribuições teóricas apresentadas, nos mostra que esse caminho pode contribuir com os processos de pensamento, raciocínio, resolução de problemas e organização de ideias, indispensáveis para a tomada de decisões financeiras. Palavras-chave: Scratch; Educação Matemática; Educação Básica. Financial education and the contributions of the computacional thinking in a decision-making activity proposal Abstract: In this article we bring an activity focused on decision making in Financial Education, carried out in Scratch software. We identify and value the contributions of Computational Thinking in the process of elaboration of the activity, in relation to its relation with reasoning and thought processes. The objective is to discuss how Mathematics and financial discussions are presented, from an activity that considers computational thinking as a path to decision making, reflectively and critically. The analysis of the activity, together with the theoretical contributions presented, shows that this path can contribute to the processes of thinking, reasoning, problem solving and idea organization, indispensable for financial decision-making. Keywords: Scratch; Mathematics Education; Basic Education.

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