The Role of Spiritual Intelligence and Religious Orientation in the Altruism of Female High School Students

This study determines the role of spiritual intelligence and religious orientation in the altruism of female high school students in Behshahr. The research method was descriptive-correlational. The present study's statistical population includes all female high school students studying 10th-grade humanities and 10th natural science in Behshahr in 2019-20, and 456 people (210 10th-grade humanities and 236 natural science) were selected using a multi-stage cluster sampling method. Data were collected from three questionnaires of spiritual intelligence (Abdullahzadeh et al., 2009), a religious orientation questionnaire (Azerbaijani, 2003), and an altruism questionnaire (Ahmadi, 2009). Data were analyzed using simple and multiple hierarchical regression (direct and indirect relationships). This research showed that spiritual intelligence and religious orientation have a significant relationship with altruism. In addition, the altruism role was confirmed as a variable with multiple relationships between spiritual intelligence and religious orientation. Therefore, these findings help better understand spiritual intelligence's role in interpersonal variables and enrich models and treatment programs to solve communication problems.