Spiritual intelligence and its demographic factors in military personnel

Spiritual intelligence is a factor that influences individual, social and in consequence organizational behavior. The purpose of this study was to evaluate factors associated with the spiritual intelligence among military personnel. This is a descriptive–correlational study in which spiritual indices were measured and then were described. The study population consisted of the staff of a military unit, 10,687 people who were selected by the way of stratified sampling. A questionnaire was designed to measure spiritual intelligence. Next, the data were analyzed using SPSS15 software. Findings showed that the relationship to God, forethought, and monism (unity) were at a high level. Besides, components of communication with others, trust in God, self-evaluation, self-knowledge, spiritual experiences and forgiveness of others’ faults were acceptable. Last of all, patience among the staff was normal. It is worth saying that none of the dimensions of spiritual intelligence were moderately low, poor or so poor. The results also showed that the level of spiritual intelligence was higher among the staff aged 40 or those with more than 20 years’ work experience. Even so, the relationship between education and spiritual intelligence of the personnel was different. According to the results, it can be said that attention to the employees who are younger and less experienced is necessary for the growth of spiritual intelligence especially as for the indices of forgiveness, spiritual experience, patience and self-knowlege.ds: