Studying Effect of Instructing Spiritual Intelligence on Life Quality and Psychological Well-being in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

To cite this paper: Zamani, S.N. and Hajializadeh, K. (2015). Studying Effect of Instructing Spiritual Intelligence on Life Quality and Psychological Well-being in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis. South journal of Educational Psychology and Counseling, 2, 1, 28-36. Abstract: Purpose and Background: Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic disease and causes to deterioration of central nervous cells. Often it is appeared in young people and leads to physical limitations and psychological side effects in patients and it has influenced over their life quality and psychological well-being. Spiritual intelligence as a base of individual's belief plays a main role in different backgrounds of human being life especially to yield and promote mental health and life quality. The study aimed to explore the effect of instructing spiritual intelligence on life quality and psychological well-being in patients suffering from Multiple Sclerosis. Methodology: the population was all patients suffering from Multiple Sclerosis in Bandar Abbas (N=124), and through a semi experimental plan 54 available participants were selected from patients with Multiple Sclerosis in Bandar Abbas and randomly were divided in two groups of evidence and intervention groups. Questionnaires on life quality sf12 and psychological well-being (RPWB) were used for mental assessment.Indexes of life quality and psychological well-being were collected in three steps that are before intervention sessions, after the last session ( fifteen sessions in two months), tracking them after two months and they were analyzed by using descriptive statistics , variance analysis test and continual measurement program. Findings: show that indexes of life quality and psychological well-being significantly improved after intervention of spiritual intelligence in post-test and follow-up, also the two groups represented significant difference in situation of life quality and psychological well-being variables.