The Mediating Role of Social Adequacy in Relationship Between Creative Thinking and Emotional Intelligence with Religious Orientation

Determining the mediating role of social adequacy in relationship between creative thinking and emotional intelligence with religious orientation.

The research method was correlation and the statistical population of 1187 female vocational students in the 4th district of Tehran (2015-16). According to Klein (2016) and considering the probability of decline, 240 people were selected by multi-stage random sampling. Out of 10 public high schools, Absal, Sedigheh Roudbari, Imam Mohammad Baqer and Bint Al-Huda Sadr, and then 2 classes from each high school in 2 fields of experimental sciences and mathematics were randomly selected. The research instrument were Parandin Social adequacy Questionnaire (2006), Abedi Creative Thinking (1984), Bar-on Emotional Intelligence (1980) and Allport and Ross Religious Orientation (1967). After removing 20 incomplete questionnaires, the data of 220 people were analyzed using path analysis.

The results showed that creative thinking, emotional intelligence and social adequacy can predict internal and external religious orientation negatively and positively (P = 0.001), respectively. Indirect path coefficient of creative thinking and emotional intelligence with internal religious orientation in the negative (β = -0.104, P = 0.001) and (β = -0.226, P = 0.001) and with external religious orientation is significant positively (β = 0.054, P= 0.006) and (β = 0.117, P = 0.006) through social adequacy mediation.

By cultivating and strengthening the independent variables of research, students can lead to an internal religious orientation.