The relationship of social skills, hope and spiritual intelligence with spiritual well-being of nurses

This research aimed to investigate the relationship of social skills, hope and spiritual intelligence with spiritual well-being of nurses. In a correlation study from nurses of governmental hospital in Urmia city at 2017 year, 280 nurses were selected through stratified sampling method. All of them completed the questionnaires of social skills (Gresham & Elliott, 1990), hope (Snyder & et al, 1991) spiritual intelligence (Abdollahzadeh & et al, 2009) and spiritual well-being (Paloutzian & Ellison, 1982). Data was analyzed with Pearson correlation and multivariate regression with enter model methods. The findings showed there is a positive and significant relationship between cooperation, assertiveness, self-control, hope and spiritual intelligence with spiritual well-being of nurses. Also the variables of social skills, hope and spiritual intelligence significantly could predict 46/3 percent of variance of spiritual well-being of nurses (P<0/05). Regarded to results to improve the spiritual well-being of nurses should be increase the rate of cooperation, self-control, hope and spiritual intelligence of them. Also officials, planners and counselors, must consider the symptoms of mentioned variables and design and implementation appropriate programs to improve the ritual well-being of nurses.