Mental health in students: The role of Spirituality and Emotional intelligence

There is a relationship between spirituality and emotional intelligence with mental health. Since identifying of factors affecting mental health in particular in students is necessary, therefore, the present study aimed to determine the relationships between Spirituality and emotional intelligence with mental health in students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Through a cross-sectional study using randomized allocation sampling, 358 students in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad were recruited in 2015. A standard questionnaire including demographic variables and variables of spirituality, emotional intelligence and mental health was applied. Collected data were analyzed using linear regression in SPSS software. Mean and standard deviation of age was 21.63 ± 1.7 years, respectively that 64.5% were female. There were significant relationships between spirituality and emotional intelligence with students’ mental health so that predicts by increasing the mean score of spirituality and emotional intelligence, the mean score of students’ mental health to be increased. Emotional intelligence showed that has a more predicting role. Eventually, there were no statistically significant relationships between age and gender with students’ mental health. With regard to results, life skills education in advanced levels considering spirituality and in particular promotion of emotional intelligence can have an important role in improvement of students’ mental health.