The Effect of Love for the Quran on Social Adjustment Mediated by Spiritual Intelligence on Students of Khoy Faculty of Quranic Sciences

Familiarity with the Quran and applying the teachings of the prophets in life is one of the key factors in improving mental health and social adjustment. Spiritual intelligence is one of the effective components of positive job behaviors and awareness of internal changes and its promotion among the young generation can reduce m any psychological problems among them and provide the basis for academic achievement. Accordingly, this study aims to discover the impact of love for the Quran on social adjustment as mediated by spiritual intelligence among the students of Khoy Faculty of Quranic Sciences .

Methods :

This is a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population of the study included the students of Khoy Faculty of Quranic Sciences, out of whom 103 participants were selected in the academic year 2018 - 2019 by stratifie d random sampling. The instruments used in this study included the researcher - made Questionnaire of Love for the Quran, King’s Spiritual Intelligence Questionnaire and Bell’s Social Adjustment Questionnaire . In this study, all ethical considerations were o bserved and the authors did not report any conflict of interests .

Out of the 103 students, 70.9% were female and 29.1% were male. According to the levels of significance obtained, all variables were normally distributed. The mean score was 11.15 for social adjustment, 3.89 for familiarity with the Quran and 3.89 for spiritual intelligence. The results of Pearson correlation pointed to a significant positive relationship between love for the Quran and social adjustment (r=0.64), between love for Qu ran and spiritual intelligence (r=0.59) and between spiritual intelligence and social adjustment (r=0.53) .

Based on the results, spiritual intelligence can create positive effects with its mediating role in the relationship between the Qur'an a nd the social adjustment of the students of Khoy Faculty of Quranic Sciences. Therefore, it is suggested educational and cultural packages be provided to the students of this center and other educational centers and institutions to increase their spiritual intelligence in order to increase their social adjustment in the university and other social environments .