Spiritual intelligence and abstract, verbal and numeric reasoning

Abstract

The aim of this research was to explore the theme of intelligence and some of the respective developments. It was structured, theoretically, from a psychometric viewpoint and had the objective of exploring the relationship between spiritual intelligence and abstract, verbal and numerical reasoning in university students attending the 1st and 5th years of a graduate psychology course in a private university in the state of São Paulo. The instruments used were the Reasoning Test Battery and the Spiritual Intelligence Inventory. Students volunteered to take part and the data collection took place collectively in just one session. The data were submitted to the Pearson correlation test and evidenced a significant, negative and high correlation between abstract and spiritual intelligence, mainly in the factors of divinity (r=-0.359, p=0.017) and diligence (r=-0.414, p=0.005). The data were discussed in the light of the psychological evaluation from a psychometric perspective, aimed at explaining some questions about the spiritual intelligence construct.

Psychological evaluation; Spiritual intelligence; University