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Aim and Background: The aim of this study was to determine the statistical correlation between personality characteristics and spiritual intelligence in a group of students of Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran. Methods and Materials: This descriptive-analytic study was conducted in 2010-2011. A total number of 284 (130 males and 154 females) undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students of Isfahan University were selected by cluster random sampling method. The participants were evaluated using NEO Personality Inventory and a spiritual intelligence scale. Data was analyzed through descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients and regression analysis. Findings: Among the five personality factors, neuroticism had a negative correlation with spiritual intelligence (P < 0.001). In contrast, spiritual intelligence was positively correlated with extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness (P < 0.001). Multiple correlations were also found between the three mentioned factors and spiritual intelligence (F = 16.63). . Conclusions: This study indicated the role of personality characteristics in spiritual intelligence. Among the five personality factors, extraversion, agreeableness and above all conscientiousness were predictors of spiritual intelligence. Therefore, personality characteristics need to be evaluated as predictors of spiritual intelligence.

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Aim and Background: Spiritual intelligence and emotional intelligence may complement each other in order to make a healthy life. On the one hand, spiritual intelligence leads to stabilization of virtues through improving spirituality and religious convictions and on the other hand, emotional intelligence improves social relations and controls affections and feelings. This may help individuals to move towards perfection. Methods and Materials: This was a descriptive-correlational study, and the sample size included 424 students of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in 2011, who were selected using multi-stage cluster random sampling method from different faculties and majors. Data collection tools included the trait emotional intelligence questionnaire of Petrides and Furnham (TEIQue) and a researcher-made spiritual intelligence questionnaire (with reliability coefficients of 0.84 and 0.87, respectively). Multiple regression was used to analyze the data. Findings: The results of regression analysis showed that there was a correlation between spiritual intelligence and emotional intelligence. This relationship, which was statistically significant, was observed in different aspects of spiritual and emotional intelligence. Conclusions: Higher spiritual intelligence leads to higher emotional intelligence and indeed, spiritual intelligence amplifies emotional intelligence.

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Aim and Background: Marital forgiveness is one of the most important factors in marital satisfaction and is considered an effective variable in resolving marital conflicts and increasing marital satisfaction. The main purpose of this study was to develop a causal model of marital forgiveness based on emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence with the mediating role of marital differentiation.
Methods and Materials: The present study was a correlation in the form of structural equations. The statistical population included married women aged 25 to 45 years in Hamadan, from which 408 people were selected by cluster random sampling. They all completed questionnaires on marital forgiveness, spiritual intelligence, emotional intelligence, and marital differentiation. A structural equation test using PLS software was used to analyze the data.
Findings: The results showed that there is a direct positive relationship between emotional intelligence (0.102) and spiritual intelligence (0.286) of couples with marital forgiveness. The relationship between couples' spiritual intelligence and their level of differentiation is direct, negative, and significant (-0.139). Also, the relationship between the level of differentiation (-0.348) and marital forgiveness of couples is direct and the relationship between the two variables is negative. The level of differentiation of couples has a mediating effect on the relationship between emotional intelligence and marital forgiveness (-0.07) and also the relationship between spiritual intelligence and marital forgiveness (0.048).
Conclusions: According to the research results, it can be said that the causal model of marital forgiveness based on emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence with the mediating role of differentiation has a good fit and therefore the knowledge of counselors, psychologists, and experts about these variables can be helpful.