Abstract

The present study examined the relationship between personality traits and spiritual intelligence among university students. In this correlation research, 205 students of University of Tehran were chosen using multiple cluster sampling. Then they completed personality traits questionnaire NO-FFI (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and spiritual intelligence scale (King, 2008).Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient by means of SPSS version16. Findings show that there is a negative relation between Neuroticism and spiritual intelligence and positive relation between conscientiousness, agreeableness and extroversion accordingly. Openness had no relation with spiritual intelligence. Also synchronic regression shows that the three personality traits,/extroversion, conscientiousness and agreeableness explain 0/052 variance of spiritual intelligence simultaneously. According to the findings, personality traits are factors that have got a considerable role in people spiritual intelligence.

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