Relationship between Parent's Spiritual Intelligence, Level of Education and Children's Mental Health

Abstract

Spiritual intelligence refers to the human's ability in planning creatively created questions in life. In a spiritual communication, it helps parents to have an effect on children's mental health. The goals of this study are as follows: 1 – to survey the level of children's mental health based on their parent's spiritual intelligence 2 – to survey the relationship of parent's demographic characteristics with their spiritual intelligence and children's mental health. 185 children studying in the senior high school (95 boys and 90 girls) and also one of their parents (80 fathers and 105 mothers) from Khoy city (Iran) participated in the present study. This study is a descriptive one. To measure the children's mental health level, we used general health questionnaire (Goldbarg, 1972), to measure the parent's spiritual intelligence level, we used spiritual intelligence questionnaire (Abdollahzadeh and co-workers, 2008) and finally to gather demographic data, we used a prepared inventory. The study results showed that level of the children's mental health is different based of the parent's spiritual intelligence and when parents have a higher spiritual intelligence, their children's level of mental health is high than the children who have parents with lower spiritual intelligence. Also parent's spiritual intelligence is different based on their level of education. Parents who have a higher-education showed higher spiritual intelligence in comparison to the parents who have elementary and secondary education. And finally, gender and age have no effect on parent's spiritual intelligence and there isn’t any difference between children's mental health level based on parent's gender, age, and education so it can be said the relationship between parent's levels of education, age and gender with children's mental health depends on the parent's spiritual intelligence level.