Emotional intelligence and its relationship to psychological resilience and spiritual intelligence among a sample of university students.

Abstract

The present paper aims at studying the relationship between emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence, and psychological flexibility among university students. The study sample consisted of 55 university students, both males and females, specialized in psychology. We used three measures as tools of study: The emotional intelligence scale of Farouk Othman and Mohammed Abdel-Samee Rizk (1994); the spiritual intelligence scale of Al Ghodany (2011), and psychological flexibilityscale of Conor and Davidson's (2011) (translated by Riyad Al Assimi). In addition, the researcher used SPSS V 22 to examine the data of the study.

The present study found the following results:

• There is a statistically significant correlation at level (0.01) between emotional intelligence and psychological flexibility.
• There is a positive correlation but not statistically significant at the (0.01) level, between emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence;
• There is a positive correlation, but not statistically significant at the level of (0.01) between spiritual intelligence and psychological flexibility.