The Effectiveness of Training Spiritual Intelligence on Responsibility among the Junior High School Female Students in Qom in School Year 2019-2020

This paper aimed at determining the effectiveness of training spiritual intelligence on responsibility among the junior high school female students in Qom in school year 2019-2020.  

The research method was quasi-experimental with control group pretest-posttest design. The statistical population consisted of all the junior high school female students in Qom in school year 2019-2020. Through multi-stage random sampling method, 60 students were selected and randomly divided into experimental and control groups. For the collection of data, the Neʻmati’s Adolescents Responsibility Questionnaire (2008) which is of good validity and reliability were used. The experimental group was trained in 10 sessions of 90 minutes through the spiritual intelligence training package of King (2008), which was localized and adapted to the literature of Islamic education. Data were analyzed through analysis of covariance.

Findings showed that there is a significant difference between students’ performance in responsibility and all its components except regularity in the experimental and control groups. Therefore, it can be said that training spiritual intelligence increases responsibility according to all its components except regularity, among the junior high school female students in Qom in school year 2019-2020.

According to the findings, with a focus on training and development of teenagers’ spiritual intelligence, we can improve their responsibility.