Preventive Care in Nursing and Midwifery Journal

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Background and Objectives: Spiritual intelligence is an important concept in the field of spirituality. It combines the spirituality and intelligence structures within a new structure. Spirituality helps to better compatibility with the environment. This study investigated the spiritual intelligence of Zanjan Nursing and Midwifery students and assessed its relationship with some demographic factors. Material and Methods: In this correlational study, the intelligence level of 220 students in Nursing and Midwifery school of Zanjan were measured using the Spiritual intelligence questionnaire consisted of 29 items with the Likert scoring scale. The participants were selected using random sampling. The data was analyzed using statistical tests at the significant level of P<0.05 in the SPSS-18. Results: The result of the study revealed that 74.5 percent of the participants were female and 25.5 percent of were male. The mean age of the students was 21.5 (SD=23.2). The mean GPA of the students was 16.68 (SD=19.2). The mean score of Spiritual intelligence of student was 17.42 (SD=121) with a range of 43-145. The average of Spiritual intelligence was 16.9 (SD=122.61) among female students and 18.44 (SD=116.3) among male students. About 83.4 percent of students had good spiritual intelligence, 14.5 percent had average spiritual intelligence, and 1.8 percent of student had low spiritual intelligence. Conclusion: Nursing and midwifery studentshavea high level of spiritual intelligence. Personality characteristics need to be evaluated as predictor of spiritual intelligence.

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Background: According to Adler, lifestyle reflects the individual’s unique, unconscious, and repetitive way of responding to or avoiding main living routines: friendship, love, work, spirituality, family, and self-acceptance. Lifestyle is related to spirituality, as well as the life solutions chosen by a person.
Objectives: The present study aimed to examine the relationship between psychological lifestyle and spiritual intelligence in women.
Methods: In this descriptive-correlational study, all the women referred to counseling centers and health clinics in districts five and six of Tehran in 2020. The participants were 400 women who met our inclusion criteria and volunteered to participate in the study, chosen by the convenience sampling method. For calculating the sample size, we used the Cochran formula. The data were collected using the Self-Report Measure of Spiritual Intelligence (King & DeCicco, 2009) and Adlerian-Based Lifestyle Assessment (Curlette, Wheeler, & Kern, 1993) tools. The collected data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation test by SPSS 16.
Results:: The results indicated that 32% of the women were 26 to 30 years old, 38.75% of them had a diploma, and 35.2% had two children. The findings showed a significant and positive relationship between lifestyle and spiritual intelligence (P<0.01), indicating that the higher a person’s lifestyle score was, the higher his/her level of spiritual intelligence would be.
Conclusion: Studies have shown that lifestyle, a sense of belonging, going along, taking charge, wanting recognition, and being cautious, plays a decisive role throughout a person’s social, professional, marital, and physical lives, as well as his/her spiritual intelligence. Our findings can be used for educating, guiding, and counseling women to appropriately modify their life styles

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Background: Nurses are among the individuals who are under various forms of stress and physical and psychological harm due to the nature of their occupation.
Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of self-compassion in the relationship between spiritual intelligence and hope in female nurses.
Methods: The method of the current research was descriptive-correlational. In this research, 183 female nurses of Neyshabur hospitals were selected by convenience sampling method in 2019. Participants completed King’s Spiritual Intelligence Questionnaire (2008), Snyder’s Hope Questionnaire (2000), and Neff’s Self-Compassion Scale (2003). The data were analyzed using SPSS software version 24, descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, frequency, and frequency percentage), path analysis method, and Pearson correlation coefficient.
Results: The mean (SD) age of participants was 35.22(5.91) years. Spiritual intelligence and self-compassion were predictors of hope in female nurses (p<0.005). Overall, the results showed that self-compassion had a mediating role in the relationship between spiritual intelligence and hope in female nurses (p<0.05).
Conclusion: According to the findings, it seems that individuals who have high spiritual intelligence feel self-compassion and therefore are more hopeful.

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Background: Epidemic diseases such as Covid-19 can adversely affect job security and social status, thereby leading to psychological distress.
Objectives: The aim of the present study was to predict psychological turmoil among nurses working during Covid-19 pandemic based on job security, spiritual intelligence, and social acceptance.
Methods: This descriptive-correlational study was conducted on 210 nurses working at the Hazrat-e-Valiasr (AS) Hospital of Zanjan City between Farvardin and Khordad 2021. The participants were recruited by convenience sampling, and data were collected using Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10), Nissi’s job security questionnaire, the spiritual intelligence scale developed by Naseri et al., and Marlowe–Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MC–SDS). Data analyses were conducted in SPSS software v. 23 using Pearson correlation and stepwise regression.
Results: The research findings indicated that nurses’ psychological distress amid Covid-19 pandemic significantly and inversely correlated with job security (r = 0.42, p<0.01), spiritual intelligence (r = 0.43, p<0.01), and social acceptance (r = 0.47, p<0.01). Also, social acceptance (r = 6.27, p < 0.01), job security (r= 4.71, p < 0.01), and spiritual intelligence (r = 4.29, p < 0.01) were able to predict psychological distress among nurses.
Conclusion: Based on the results of the present study, it is suggested that the authorities of medical education organizations consider programs to familiarize nurses with Iran’s subcultures (such as religious beliefs, rituals, and obligations) to promote their cultural sensitivity, job security, and social acceptance. This can furthermore ensue with positive consequences such as the improvement of nurses’ quality of life, well-being, physical and mental health, job satisfaction, and life condition.