A Developmental Study of Spiritual Intelligence from Adolescence to Elderly

The purpose of this study was to investigate the developmental change of spiritual intelligence from adolescence to elderly in the City of Arak-Iran. The samples were 740 persons in the following five age groups who were selected by cluster sampling 14-19 years-old (n=165), 20-29 years-old (n=174), 30-39 years-old (n=214), 40-49 years-old (n=100) and over 50 years-old (n=87). The samples completed the Spiritual Intelligence Questionnaire (Sohrabi and Naseri). The results of analysis of covariance revealed that there were significant differences among the spiritual intelligence of the five age groups. It was also shown that the spiritual intelligence scores increased from the first to the forth age groups, but slightly decreased in the fifth group as compared with the forth age-group. The results of pair-wise comparisons showed significant differences between the scores of the following age groups: 20-29 and 40-49, 14-19 and 30-39, 30-39 and 40-49, 14-19 and 40-49, 14-19 and over 50. The results of comparing the total score of spiritual intelligence and its subscales indicated an increase along with age in the groups 1 to 4, but in most subscales a decrease in the group 5.