Revista Europea de Biología Experimental Acceso abierto

Abstracto

The comparison of spiritual intelligence between three groups of sightless with little eyesight and normal people

Somayeh Alirezaei Moghaddam Bajestani, Ali Asghar Asghar Nejad Farid, Nikta Nazemi Zand1 and Fariborz Bagheri

This research was aimed to compare the spiritual intelligence between the three groups of sightless, with little eyesight and normal people. Since this research compares the spiritual intelligence between the three groups of sightless, with little eyesight and normal people, its method of data collection is descriptive, and a comparative – causal method was used. Research population was all the sightless, with little eyesight and normal university students in Tehran. Among these, 63 students were selected separately, and from each group 21 students were chosen out using convenient sampling method. The tool used in this research for data collection was Naseri spiritual intelligence questionnaire. ANOVA Variance analysis was used to test the research hypothesis and data analysis. The results of data analysis showed that there is not significant difference between the spiritual intelligence index and all its sub-scales e.g. transcendental self- awareness, spiritual experiences, patience and forgiveness with the three groups of sightless, with little eyesight and normal university students. It seems the long time people lived with disability to reinforce Spirituality, being in the youth and adult ages and being highly educated it can be affective as the factor of Spiritual Intelligence education, It can be concluded that the spiritual intelligence capability has been responsible for their success and has built great capabilities to fight against the problems.