prediction of job stress based on spiritual intelligence and self-differentiation

background and objectives: job stress is not always caused directly by the stressful sources, but it results more from the way in which those sources are perceived. therefore, a lot of factors are effective in job stress. as such, the present study was done to predict the job stress based on spiritual intelligence and self-diffrentiation of teachers of exceptional children in the town of shahriar. methods: it is a cross-sectional and analytical study. the population of this study consisted of all teachers of exceptional children in the town of shahriar in the academic year of 2014-2015, from whom 120 individuals were selected by cluster sampling method. data were collected using ospiw’s job stress questionnaire, bowen’s self-diffrentiation questionnaire and king’s spiritual intelligence questionnaire. the data were analyzed using simultaneous regression and spss software. results: the results showed that there was a negative relationship between job stress and self-differentiation, and also a significant negative relationship was found between spiritual intelligence and job stress (p<0.01). moreover, the analysis of data in simultaneous regression showed that the predictor variables can predict about 41.7 of job stress variance. conclusion: job stress is predictable based on spiritual intelligence and self-differentiation. therefore, drawing the actual goals and values is attainable, playing meanwhile an effective role in learners’ learning in future performance and job far from any conflict.