The Relationship of Religious Orientation and Spiritual Intelligence with the Degree of Student's Resilience

This research aims to investigate the relationship of religious education and spiritual intelligence with the degree of student's resilience. The population sample consists of all the students of Kashan University in the academic year 92-93 (solar). 228 students were chosen by means of classified sampling. The research techniques are: Allport questionnaire on religious orientation, a questionnaire on spiritual intelligence and Scale of Resilience. The results show that the inner religious orientation has a significant positive relationship with spiritual intelligence and degree of student's resilience and there is no significant relationship between female students and male students concerning religious orientation, spiritual intelligence and resilience. Furthermore, there is a significant difference between students and researchers in religion concerning the inner and outer religious orientation, but in as far as spiritual intelligence and degree of resilience are concerned, no difference is detected between these two groups. The results of regression analysis show that spiritual intelligence has the most contribution to the interpretation of student's resilience. Finally, we can concluded that those who have inner religious orientation; that is, they do not pretend to be pious merely out of selfish interest, and those with high spiritual intelligence have high resilience.