The Relation between Spiritual Intelligence and Hospital Performance (Case Study: Therapeutic Personnel of Shahid Fayazbakhsh Hospital)

Mojgan Asghari and Alireza Shirvani

International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 2015, vol. 5, issue 3, 287-303

Abstract: In the current era, human society strongly needs to spirituality, religiosity and morality. Hospital personnel can treat their job as a spiritual mission through combining spirituality with their profession. The researcher addressed spiritual intelligence since, according to conducted researches; this mechanism has a fundamental role in recovering patients’ health and in improving therapeutic personnel performance. The present research aims to investigate the relationship between spiritual intelligence and hospital performance. In this research, 910 people including physicians, supervisors and nurses constituted the statistical population, and 168 people were selected with random sampling as the sample population. To assess the validity of the questionnaire, Structural validity and Content validity were employed, and to evaluate the reliability of the questionnaire, Cranach’s alpha was used. The present study has an applied objective and a descriptive-survey nature, and variables have correlation with each other. The data collection was carried out through library research and applying a researcher-made questionnaire to confirm or reject the research hypotheses, and to test the hypotheses, correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling were used.

Keywords: Spiritual intelligence; Critical Existential Thinking; Personal Meaning Production; Transcendental Awareness; Conscious State Expansion; Hospital performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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