Evaluation of relationship between intellectual intelligence and self-control, and defense mechanisms in the third year of secondary school girls

Intelligence is one of the most important individual differences among members of the community. Spiritual intelligence is performance with insight warmth and compassion with the outer and inner calm. Purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between spiritual intelligence, self-control, and defense mechanisms in the third grade high school girls in the city of Mehran. This descriptive and correlational study was performed on all girl students in the third grade high school girls in Mehran city (n=a08). Spiritual intelligence questionnaire of Abdullahzadeh, defense mechanisms questionnaire of Hosseini and Tanjy self-control questionnaire were used. Data were analyzed with statistical software SPSS 19. A significant positive correlation was observed between spiritual intelligence and self-control level (p<0.01). There were positive correlation between spiritual intelligence and breaking mechanism and also rationalization (p<0.01), but there were no significant correlation between the spiritual intelligence and return mechanism, displacement, denial, fantasies, sublimated, and transformation. This study showed that spiritual intelligence strengthens mature defense mechanisms, and people can deal with stressors in a right way.