Abstract
This present study aims to explore the urgency of promoting the spiritual intelligence of children in a family setting and its implications for the children’s development. A qualitative descriptive design was employed in this study. Three female and two male lecturers of Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Kudus were recruited in this research. The study used in-depth interviews to collect the data. The findings demonstrate that the lecturers enhanced their children with Islamic education to shape their spiritual awareness. This study also highlights a wide array of reasons for the urgency of fostering the children’s spiritual intelligence attempted by the lecturers. Firstly, this kind of intelligence constitutes the value and meaning of spirituality. Secondly, it represents the nature of faith (spirituality) for human beings. Lastly, spiritual intelligence reflects the meaning or core of the whole intelligence that plays a pivotal role in the basis for intelligence quotient (IQ) and emotional quotient (EQ). The internalization of spiritual intelligence in children can be fostered when they are in the womb until adulthood through habituation, good modeling, and consistency from their parents. Furthermore, the implications of spiritual intelligence for children cover their character, emotional, psychological, and physical development.
Highlights
A surge of spiritual intelligence has received a wide array of attention from researchers for recent years
Diponegoro & Trihandini (2005) argue that an employee who gets a high Spiritual Quotient (SQ) test score at the process of recruitment turns out to show better work performance. It might occur when the employee frequently acquires new knowledge and skills from some training provided. This finding emphasizes that the employee attaining a high score of Emotional Quotient (EQ) test tends to demonstrate better performance
Emmons (2000) regards that the factors cope with mysticism, transcendence, and the capacity to cultivate a high level of spiritual awareness, understand spiritual meaning in daily activities and use spiritual resources to solve problems yielding virtuous character
Summary
A surge of spiritual intelligence has received a wide array of attention from researchers for recent years. The research findings presented above suggest that spiritual intelligence gives a positive, even significant, effect on social behavior, work performance, and personal financial management. The fading of their awareness of character values, such as religious values, shame, honesty, politeness, and social care, causes them to be negligent and not to act based on well-determined rules so that they have a negative impact on themselves and others Those cases depict that the education prioritizing cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains without being balanced with fostering spiritual intelligence has not been able to make human beings superior in knowledge and morality. In line with the Tasmara’s point of view, Agustian (2001: 14) asserts that spiritual intelligence deals with the problem of meaning This kind of intelligence enables to place human behavior and life in a variety of contexts such as family, community, and corporate. The data were analyzed qualitatively by applying an interactive model, namely: data collection, data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing
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