Study of Relationship between Spiritual Transcendence and Resilience

Spiritual transcendence is internal manifestation of religiosity (piedmont, 2004). Purpose of present study was to investigate relation between facets of spiritual transcendence and resilience. Participants were 270 students from Shiraz University and Islamic Azad university of Arsenjan. Spiritual transcendence was measured by spiritual transcendence scale (STS) that scale consists of three subscales: Universality, Prayer Fulfillment, and Connectedness. For measuring resilience Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (2003) was used. To Alpha Cronbach and test-retest methods were used to determine reliability of measures. Alpha coefficients for the Universality, Prayer Fulfillment, and Connectedness subscales and total score were 73,. 74,. 75 and. 84, respectively, and test-retest coefficients for three subscale and total score were. 73,. 91,. 68 and. 84 respectively. Test-retest and alpha coefficients for CD-RISC also were. 73 and. 87, respectively. Factor analysis was applied to investigate validity information of the scales. Findings confirmed three factors for STS and a general factor for CD-RISC. There were significant correlations between STS and CD- RISC. The Correlation coefficients were. 41,. 32,. 45,. 48 for Universality, Prayer Fulfillment, and Connectedness subscales and total scale, respectively. All coefficients were significant at. 001 levels. Results of simultaneous regression of resilience on spiritual transcendence facets have been shown Connectedness (
=0.30 p<0.001) and Universality (
=0.19 p<0.01) factors are significant predictors of resilience.