The Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and Test Anxiety Scale in Students of North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences

Test anxiety is one of the most critical concerns of the education system. Spiritual intelligence is a collection of individual capacities about spiritual resources. Due to the importance of spiritual intelligence on test anxiety and studentschr('39') mutual success and academic achievement, this study aimed to determine the relationship between spiritual intelligence and test anxiety in North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences students.

The present study is a cross-sectional analytical study investigating the relationship between spiritual intelligence and test anxiety in 435 students of North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences in 2017-18. The subjects were selected by multistage sampling (stratified and systematic random sampling). Data were collected by Kingchr('39')s standardized questionnaire of spiritual intelligence and Sarason test anxiety. Data were analyzed by SPSS 20software using t-test, Analysis of variance, and Pearson correlation test.

The subjectschr('39') mean age was 21.57 ± 3.57 years, and 308 (70.8%) of the issues were female. The mean score of studentschr('39') spiritual intelligence was ± 45.82 13.9, and the mean score of exam anxiety was 15.7± 6.07. The results showed a significant and inverse relationship between test anxiety and total spiritual intelligence score. There was a substantial and inverse relationship between spiritual intelligence dimensions, the dimension of critical existential thinking, and personal meaning production with exam anxiety (P-value < 0.001).

According to the results of this study, recognizing the inverse relationship between spiritual intelligence and students chr('39')test anxiety can provide a basis for promoting spiritual intelligence and reducing studentschr('39') stress.