Mediating role of mental health and spiritual intelligence of high school teachers in Jam

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Nasrin Hatami Nia and Mozhgan Amiriyanzadeh (Department of Counselling, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran)

The purpose of this study was to explain the mediating role of mental health and spiritual intelligence of high school teachers in Jam. The research method is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of nature and method is descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of this study included all teachers’ Jam city. To determine the sample size, 200 were selected by stratified random sampling method. The instruments used in this research were Goldberg and Hiller’s Mental Health Questionnaire, Spiritual Intelligence of King and Associates. The validity and reliability of the tool was confirmed. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics and standard deviation and inferential statistics methods, Pearson correlation coefficient and assumed model test using path analysis method were used by Baron and Kenny method. The results indicated that spiritual intelligence has a significant psychological relationship with mental health. Spiritual intelligence can significantly predict mental health directly. Spiritual intelligence has a direct meaningful relationship with organizational citizenship behavior. Mental health is directly related to the citizen’s behavior of the organization. Mental health plays the role of mediator between spiritual intelligence and organizational citizenship behavior.