Abstract
Existential intelligence is often neglected in literature, especially at the tertiary level. Therefore this study aims to identify the degree of existential intelligence in a sample of graduate students at the World Islamic Sciences University in Jordan. In addition, the study aims to find out whether this degree differs according to a number of variables. The study sample comprised 56 male and female Faculty of Educational Sciences graduate students of 2017/2018 academic year. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, existential intelligence scale was used after the scale’s validity and reliability was examined. The results indicated that the total degree of existential intelligence among graduate students at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at World Islamic Sciences University was average (medium). Furthermore, the results revealed that there were no statistically significant differences in the degree of existential intelligence due to gender, specialization and years of experience, marital status, and work position variables at the significance level of pi‚£0.05. Key words: Existential intelligence, World Islamic Sciences University, Graduate students.
Highlights
The mental field of study is considered as one of the areas that have captured a great deal of interest from researchers in the psychological and educational sciences
The results indicated that the total degree of existential intelligence among graduate students at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at World Islamic Sciences University was average
The results shows that there are statistically significant differences according to gender variable in mathematical, spatial, interpersonal, and existential intelligence, in favor of females; while the difference in musical intelligence was in favor of males and there is absence of differences in linguistic, bodilykinesthetic, naturalistic and intrapersonal intelligences according to gender variable
Summary
The mental field of study is considered as one of the areas that have captured a great deal of interest from researchers in the psychological and educational sciences. Researchers face several challenges in the study of intelligence. This led to the emergence of several trends’ attempt to interpret the intelligence. One of these trends is the traditional trend, which considers intelligence as a general mental ability; while there is another view of intelligence that states intelligence is a set of multiple mental abilities or multiple intelligences. The classical traditional theory of intelligence is based on the idea of general ability (Jarwan and Abdel, 2016). AlEid (2014) study confirmed that the theories interpreted intelligence focused on few mental abilities and neglected the ones that are related to humanistic, existential, spiritual, and physical domains
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