A Study of the Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and its Components with Happiness in Youths

Abstract

The present study aims to examine the relationship between spiritual intelligence and its components with happiness in youths. This is a descriptive, correlational research. The research society consists of all undergraduate students in state universities in the academic year 2013-2014, aged from 19 to 25. The sample size is 375 students who have been selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. Research tools are Argyle Spiritual Intelligence Questionnaire and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire. The Pearson correlation results show that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between spiritual intelligence and its components (namely inner peace, spiritual experiences, forgiveness, and self recognition) with happiness. Moreover, the results of the independent T-test show that there is a meaningful difference between female and male students in terms of the spiritual intelligence-happiness relationship with both variables larger in female students.