The Effect of Spiritual Intelligence Training on Coping with Stress and Effective Communication Adolescent Girls

The purpose of current research is to determine the effect of spiritual intelligence training on coping with stress and making effective communication among the adolescent girls.The research design was semi-experimental one with pretest-posttest with control group and follow-up stage. The statistical population includes all female students of the eighth grade of Tehran in the academic year of 1396-1397. A total of 56 people were selected randomly in a multi-stage cluster sampling and randomly replaced in two groups of experimental and control.The present research tool was Andler & Parker’s Coping with stress Questionnaire (CISS), Karami’s Communication skills Questionnaire and Bowell’s spiritual intelligence educational package. Data were analyzed using multivariate covariance analysis. The statistical analysis of the data showed that 9 sessions of spiritual intelligence training intervention caused a significant increased the problem coping and effective communication between students and that also caused a significant reduction of emotional coping and avoidance coping.