Impact of Spiritual Intelligence on Perceived Stress in Joint and Nuclear Families

Pages:250-257
Navya Gedela, Seema Sharma, and Tejpreet Kaur Kang (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)

The present study was conducted to assess the impact of spiritual intelligence on perceived stress among joint and nuclear families. The sample consisted of 160 youth aged between 23-24 years. Multi stage purposive random sampling was employed to draw sample from five constituent colleges of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana who were equally distributed over the family structure (80 joint families & 80 nuclear families). Spiritual intelligence questionnaire by Zainuddin and Ahmed (2010) and stress scale by Lakshmi and Narain (2014) were used as data collection tools to assess the spiritual intelligence and perceived stress of university students. The results revealed that spiritual intelligence was significantly high in respondents from joint families as compared to nuclear families and nuclear families were found to have significantly greater perceived stress as compared to joint families. Regression analysis proved that spiritual intelligence had negatively contributed to perceived stress proving that increase in spiritual intelligence reduced perceived stress by one percent.