Developing a successful intelligence model based on spiritual intelligence with the mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation

Successful intelligence is a major intelligence concept which can increase the creativity and problem solving skills of learners.This study aimed to investigate the mediating role of cognitive emotion regulationin the relationship between spiritual intelligence and successful intelligence.The statistical population of this descriptive correlational study consisted of ninth grade boysat the secondary schools in the city of Birjand during the academic year 2020-2021.The sample consisted of 310 participants selected withthe random cluster sampling method. A questionnaire was used as the research tool.Data analysis was performedin SPSS-23 and LISREL 8.8 software programs using path analysis.The results showed that spiritual intelligence has a positive and significant effect on the adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and successful intelligence, and a negative and significant effect on the non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies.Also, the adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies have a positive and significant effect and the non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies had a negative and significant effect on successful intelligence.In addition, the results indicated that cognitive emotion regulation mediates the relationship between the spiritual intelligence and successful intelligence of students.