Studying the Relationships between Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence and Transformational Leadership

The current study tends to investigate the impacts of emotional and spiritual intelligence as predictive factors of transformational leadership. Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions and the ability to manage both; and spiritual intelligence is defined as the ability to utilize spiritual resources to solve real-life problems. Using exploratory and confirmative factor analysis a scale is built for measuring spiritual intelligence (the other two scales are measured applying standard questionnaires) and structural equation modeling is applied for data analysis. Results show that there is a significant relationship between emotional and spiritual intelligence and transformational leadership.