Components of Spiritual Intelligence in Sport Organizations: A Case Study of East Azarbayjan Sport and Youth Organization

The purpose of this study was to investigate the components of spiritual intelligence among employees of East Azarbayjan Sport and Youth Organization. All 50 organizational personnel in this organization were selected as the sample of the study. Standard questionnaire (King, 2008) was used for data collection. Face validity and content validity of the questionnaire were reviewed and confirmed by sport management experts after a three-level translation of the questionnaire. The reliability of questionnaire was estimated 0.80 using Cronbach’s alpha method in a pilot study. To analyze data, Kolomogrov-Smirnov, Freidman test, independent-samples T test and ANOVA was used SPSS20 (P<0.05). Results showed that staff of east Azarbayjan sport and youth organization have almost a high level of spiritual intelligence. Priority of 4 components and 24 items of spiritual intelligence were identified in this organization. Also, the comparative survey of spiritual intelligence according to age, gender, and education revealed that there is no significant difference in spiritual intelligence of this organization’s staff age and education but gender had an effect on spiritual intelligence.