Comparison of Relation between Critical Thinking and Spiritual Intelligent in Iranian Male and Female Students

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze the relation between critical thinking and spiritual intelligence in Iranian male and female students.

The sample includes 376 students at Islamic Azad University, Islamshahr branch which were selected in the stratified and randomly sampling from colleges. The tools include California's form of critical thinking and spiritual intelligent SSI-29 questionnaire. The data were analyzed by t test, Pearson correlation and Fisher's Z test.

The relation between understanding and deductive reasoning with spiritual intelligence is significant (p≤0.05). Also, the relation between critical thinking and deductive reasoning with spiritual thinking in male is significantly stronger than the one in women. The females' scores compared to males' were higher only in analysis and deductive reasoning.

With increasing spiritual intelligence, critical thinking can be improved as the main components.