Spiritual Intelligence in Relation to Mental Health: A Study among Indian Adolescents

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate and throw more light on the spiritual intelligence and mental health of school going adolescents in Chandigarh city in India. The study was designed to find out the relationship between mental health and spiritual intelligence between male and female adolescents and we used a descriptive cross-sectional survey using quantitative investigation as its research design. The population of the present research was the students of various government schools of Chandigarh, India in the age range of 15-17 years and session 2018-2019. A total sample of 100 students was taken (50 male and 50 female). We used Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) to assess mental health, while Spiritual Intelligence was measured by Spiritual Intelligence Self-Report Inventory (SISRI-24). For data analysis descriptive statistics such as frequencies, means and standard deviations, Independent Sample t-test for gender and bivariate correlations were employed to find out the relationship between mental health and spiritual intelligence. The findings indicate that students with higher spiritual intelligence own better mental health. Keywords: Spiritual intelligence • Mental health• Adolescents.