The Relationship between the Components of Spiritual Intelligence and the Students’ Islamic Unity

Abstract

The importance and necessity of understanding the factors affecting Islamic unity in our society, especially in the present day, is quite clear. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to measure the relationship of spiritual intelligence components with Islamic unity. This research was conducted with a descriptive-survey method. The statistical population of the study consisted of students from Payame Noor University of West Azarbaijan in the academic year of 1397 SH with 5000 students. The data-gathering tool was a questionnaire, and Pearson correlation coefficient and regression were used for data processing and analysis. The findings of the research confirmed the positive and significant relationship between the components of spiritual intelligence and Islamic unity of students. Also, the results of the research show that the components of critical existential thinking, Personal Meaning Production, Transcendental Awareness and Conscious State Expansion explain 6.5, 22, 11 and 2.9 percent of the changes in the Islamic unity respectively. According to the findings, it can be concluded that by strengthening the components of spiritual intelligence, Islamic unity and cohesion will increase among the students.

Keywords

• spiritual intelligence
• islamic unity of students
• payame noor university