Kourosh Goodarzi (M.A); Faramarz Sohrabi (Ph.D); Noorali Farrokhi( Ph.D); Farhad Jomehri(Ph.D)
Volume 1, Issue 1 , December 2011, , Pages 15-42
Abstract
he interactional effect of Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) and life skills training (LST) on university students` mental health were carried out in a randomized block designs study. At first, 166 male & female university students were randomly selected out of 11370 students at Islamic Azad University ...
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he interactional effect of Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) and life skills training (LST) on university students` mental health were carried out in a randomized block designs study. At first, 166 male & female university students were randomly selected out of 11370 students at Islamic Azad University in Borujerd. Then Spiritual Intelligence questionnaires (Naseri & Sohrabi, 1386), and Symptoms Checklist-90- Revised (Derogatis at al, 1975), were filled out as the pretest by the subjects. On the basis of the results of the Spiritual Intelligence questionnaire, the subjects were divided into four groups. Two experimental groups, one with a higher SQ and the other with a lower SQ & two control groups, one with a higher SQ and the other with a lower SQ. The experimental groups in two separate classes of students with higher and lower SQ took part in 16 sessions of 3 hours of the LST based on instructional pattern of WHO (1996,1999), in a time span of 8 weeks. At the end of the course, they filled out SCL90-R questionnaire for the second time as the post test. Finally, after four months in order to figure out the stability or possible changes in the results, once more, in a follow-up study, the SCL90-R questionnaire was administered. The results of statistical test of Independent-Samples T test was used to analyze indicated that SQ and LST separately have a significant effect on the students` mental health, though in an interaction with each other, the two aforementioned factors have no a significant effect the students` mental health.
