Spiritual Intelligence – Description, Measurement, Correlational Analyses
Journal Title: Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy - Year 2014, Vol 17, Issue 1
Abstract
At the end of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first century, the new current in terms of studying the shapes of human intelligence, risen from the transpersonal psychology area, brought to the world the third type of intelligence that tends to become acknowledged (after its antecessors: cognitive intelligence and emotional intelligence): „spiritual intelligence”. Spiritual intelligence, as defined by researchers, is strongly connected to the fulfillment of a human being’s profound need – to feel that everything has a meaning, a purpose. It is the intelligence that makes us whole and renders our integrity. It is the intelligence of the soul, the profound self-intelligence. It is the intelligence that makes us ask ourselves fundamental, existential questions and overcome the boundaries we were used to. The psychologists that discovered this type of intelligence say that its development guarantees the psychic health. The main challenges, which occurred once we accepted the new concept, were related to the differentiation from other concepts, more or less accepted by the psychological science: spirituality and religiosity. The main difficulties encountered by researchers were to define spiritual intelligence and to build an instrument that could be able to capture it. For these reasons, this study aimed to identify a valid instrument for the Romanian population in order to measure spiritual intelligence and to capture its significant correlations. The research was conducted on a sample of 200 subjects, by means of the SISRI-24 questionnaire, that we translated and adapted, and it demonstrated a very good validity as far as both internal and external consistency are concerned. To this end, the investigated dimensions were: transcendence, the meaning of life and creativity. This paper opens up a new perspective of research in the field, which should involve this new concept: „spiritual intelligence”.
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Florin Vancea
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