Predicting the Resilience of Students during the Corona P andemic based on the Components o f Spiritual and Social Intelligence

One of the way s to deal with various disasters such as the coronavirus is to increase resilience. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to predict the resilience of students during the corona pandemic based on the components of spiritual and social intelligence .

M ethods :

The present study was a correlational study. The statistical population of the study included all male students of Farhangian University of Shahid Bahonar Campus in Birjand in the academic year 2020 - 2021, out of whom 260 students were selected by c onvenience sampling method to participate in the research online. They answered the King’s Spiritual Intelligence Questionnaire, Silura et al.’s Social Intelligence Questionnaire and Connor and Davidson’s Resilience Questionnaire. Pearson correlation test and multiple regression were used to analyze the data. In this study, all ethical considerations were observed and no conflict of interest was reported by the authors .

The results showed that there was a direct and significant relationship betwee n spiritual intelligence (r=0.572) and social intelligence (r=0.633) with resilience (P<0.01). Also, the results showed that the components of spiritual intelligence including crit ical existential thinking (P<0.01, β=0.209), presenting personal meaning (P<0.01, β=0.260), transcendent awareness (P<0.01, β=0.319) and development of state of consciousness (P<0.05, β=0.108) and the components of social intelligence including social info rmation processing (P<0.01, β=0.353), social awareness (P<0.01, β=0.259) and social skills (Β<0.205, P<0.01) positively predicted resilience .

According to the results, creating and developing programs to strengthen spiritual and social intellig ence to increase the level of resilience of students is recommended