Comparing Spiritual Intelligence of Elite and Regular Athlete Students with Non-athlete Students of High Schools

The present study was done for the purpose of Comparing Spiritual Intelligence of Elite and Regular Athlete Atudents with Non-athlete Students of High Schools in the Iranian province of Qazvin. The statistical population of this study includes all the male high school students of Qazvin province. For this purpose, 30 elite athletes and 30 regular athletes, and 30 non-athletes were selected from 1645 students at first grade, second and third grades, all of whom were studying in the academic year of 1393-1394. Regular athletes and non-athletes were selected by simple random sampling while the elite ones were chosen by convenience sampling. Also, the standard spiritual intelligence questionnaire was used to collect data. The results of this research using descriptive statistics and statistical methods ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis test for independent groups, were obtained. The results showed that there is a significant difference between spiritual intelligence of ordinary athletes, non-athletes and elite athletes of high school students (05 / 0≥p). Also, there is a significant difference in the subscales of spiritual intelligence, including: understanding and having connection with fountainhead of Creation and experiencing a spiritual life by relying on interior core among the three mentioned groups of students (05 / 0≥p). Overall, the study showed that spiritual Intelligence and its components in elite athlete students is better than regular athlete students and non-athlete ones, thus confirming the impact of physical activity and heroism on spiritual intelligence.