Rooyesh-e- Ravanshenasi Journal(RRJ)

In this research, the relation between spiritual intelligence and hopefulness and the life quality of students examined. The spiritual intelligence and hopefulness variables regarded as foresighted variables and quality of life variable as scale variable. The spiritual intelligence as the basis of individual wills plays an excellent role in different ways especially in improving quality of life in its all aspects. Also, hopefulness toward future makes people to be more successful in improving quality of life in all aspects.

The used method is descriptive of the correlation type. The statistical sample consisted of all students of Payam Noor university of Ardal town, in proportion to university population and gender ratio, 240 people (64 males, 176 females) selected among different courses of human sciences, mathematical and technical sciences as a research sample by multi- stages random sampling. The selected sample includes students of bachelor’s degree under 25. To do this, spiritual questionnaire by king, hopefulness questionnaire by Schneider and life quality questionnaire by Fattah were used. Results of this research show the relation between spiritual intelligence and hopefulness and life quality. The correlation coefficient between spiritual intelligence and hopefulness was r = 0.41 and this correlation has been on p<0.0001 level. Also, there was a meaningful relation between two foresighted variables of the research, i.e. spiritual intelligence and hopefulness, the correlation coefficient between these two variables was r = 0.38 and on the level of p< 0.0001 has been meaningful. Results of this research present the relation of spiritual intelligence and life quality and regarding these three variables ratio, there was a meaningful difference between male and female students in human and mathematical (basic) sciences.