Predicting the Quality of Life of Injured Veterans' Spouses: the Role of Spiritual Intelligence and Emotional Self-Regulation

War usually has wide personal, social, economic and cultural consequences that have a great impact on the physical and psychological problems and in general the quality of life of injured veterans and their spouses. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the role of spiritual intelligence and emotional self-regulation in predicting the quality of life of injured veterans' spouses.

The present study was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population included all the spouses of injured veterans under the auspices of the Martyrs and Veterans Foundation of Tehran's District Five in the academic year 2019-2020. They answered Badee’ et al.’s Spiritual Intelligence, Gross and John’s Emotion Regulation, and WHO Quality of Life questionnaires. Multiple regression test was used to analyze the data. In this study, all the ethical considerations were observed and the authors reported no conflict of interests.

The results showed that the correlation of spiritual intelligence and emotional self-regulation with quality of life was positive and significant (P<0.01). The components of spiritual intelligence explain 34.5% and the components of emotional self-regulation explain 22.1% of the variance in quality of life.

According to these findings, the use of spiritual intelligence training and emotional self-regulation for injured veterans' spouses increases their quality of life.