Comparing Spiritual Intelligence in People with Different Identity Styles

Today, spiritual intelligence is one of the most critical issues in all aspects of human health and has a significant role. Having high spiritual intelligence helps medical staff look meaningfully and purposefully at the services they provide to patients and the community. This study aimed to compare the spiritual intelligence of Shiraz medical students in terms of identity styles.

In this cross-sectional and causal-comparative study, 693 students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences were selected by multistage cluster sampling in 2020. Berzonski's identity questionnaire was used to assess identity styles, and King's spiritual intelligence questionnaire was used to assess spiritual intelligence. In this study, all the ethical considerations were observed and the authors reported no conflict of interests.

The results showed that spiritual intelligence scores in students with information identity styles are significantly higher compared to the students with normative and avoidant styles. There was also a significant difference between the two groups of students with normative and avoidant identity styles in the variable of spiritual intelligence. The scores of spiritual intelligence in students with normative identity styles were significantly higher than those of the group with avoidant identity style.

Identity style is one of the essential factors in examining spiritual intelligence. Therefore, paying attention to students' identity styles can effectively increase their spiritual intelligence.