فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

INTRODUCTION: Spiritual intelligence is better defined as a capacity to discover and developtrue meaning, deep purpose, and vision in life. The purpose of the present study was to determinethe predictive role of demographic variables affecting the overall spiritual intelligence in diabeticadolescents.METHODS: In 2016, a cross‑sectional study was conducted involving 200 adolescents with type 1diabetes referring to the Iranian Diabetes Association consenting to participate. The inclusion criteriawere: age ranging from 15 to 21 years, more than a year since last diagnosed with diabetes, patients’full awareness of their disease, not having other physical‑psychological illnesses, and not takingany psychiatric or narcotic drugs. Spiritual intelligence was measured using the Spiritual IntelligenceSelf Report Inventory questionnaire consisting of 24‑questions. The alpha Cronbach’s method wasapplied to validate the questionnaire in terms of content, form, and data with the reliability calculatedas 0.903. Demographic data were analyzed using SPSS software version 18.RESULTS: On total, 56% of the participants were female, 17.10 ± 1.85, and the mean duration ofdiabetes was 5.98% ± 3.79%, 62.5% reported diabetes history among immediate relatives. Forty‑twopercent of the participants were the oldest child in the family first children of the family and 29.5%were studying at the university. The mean score of spiritual intelligence was 60.42 60.42 ing from15 to 21 years regression test using the enter method (ANOVA: 0.703, F: 0.739) showed that noneof the demographic components explored did not significantly alter the scores that assessed spiritualintelligence.CONCLUSION: The outcome of the current study portrayed that demographic features do notnecessarily alter the overall spiritual intelligence scores, thereby not necessarily affecting anindividual’s overall spirituality.