Interrelationships among Religious Attitude, Spiritual Intelligence and Socio-Religious Harmony: A Correlational Study among Religious and Gender-Based Student Groups

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Deepak Kumar Rai and Ashutosh Kumar (Department of Psychology, Shri Shankar College, Sasaram, Veer Kunwar Singh University, Ara, Bihar)

The present research study was conducted to determine the interrelationships among religious attitude (covering the Behavioural, cognitive, & emotional aspects of religion), spiritual intelligence, and socio-religious harmony among Hindu and Muslim male and female student groups (N = 400) studying at various colleges in Bihar. For the measurement of variables, the Spiritual Intelligence Self-Report Inventory (SISRI-24), developed by King (2008) and the Religious Attitude Scale-Revised (RAS-R), developed by Rajamanickam (1985) were translated into Hindi. In addition, a Socio-Religious Harmony Scale was developed by the researcher based on the indicators of socio-religious harmony suitable for the Indian context. The correlational findings of the study revealed that socio-religious harmony had a significant correlation with religious attitude ranging from r(398) = 0.12 to r(398) = 0.55, and with spiritual intelligence ranging from r(398) = 0.58, p<.01 to r(398) = 0.79, p<.01. The correlation between spiritual intelligence and religious attitude was found to range from r(398) = 0.27 to r(398) = 0.59. Thus, the findings indicate that the relationship between spiritual intelligence and socio-religious harmony is a highly significant positive correlation. In comparison, the relationships among the other two variables were found to be significant but ranged from low to moderate levels.