The Mediating Role of Social Adequacy in Relationship Between Creative Thinking and Emotional Intelligence with Religious Orientation

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Authors

1 Master of Counseling, Department of Counseling, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran.

Abstract

Aim: Determining the mediating role of social adequacy in relationship between creative thinking and emotional intelligence with religious orientation. Method: The research method was correlation and the statistical population of 1187 female vocational students in the 4th district of Tehran (2015-16). According to Klein (2016) and considering the probability of decline, 240 people were selected by multi-stage random sampling. Out of 10 public high schools, Absal, Sedigheh Roudbari, Imam Mohammad­Baqer and Bint Al-Huda Sadr, and then 2 classes from each high school in 2 fields of experimental sciences and mathematics were randomly selected. The research instrument were Parandin Social adequacy Questionnaire (2006), Abedi Creative Thinking (1984), Bar-on Emotional Intelligence (1980) and Allport and Ross Religious Orientation (1967). After removing 20 incomplete questionnaires, the data of 220 people were analyzed using path analysis. Results: The results showed that creative thinking, emotional intelligence and social adequacy can predict internal and external religious orientation negatively and positively (P = 0.001), respectively. Indirect path coefficient of creative thinking and emotional intelligence with internal religious orientation in the negative (β = -0.104, P = 0.001) and (β = -0.226, P = 0.001) and with external religious orientation is significant positively (β = 0.054, P= 0.006) and (β = 0.117, P = 0.006) through social adequacy mediation. Conclusion: By cultivating and strengthening the independent variables of research, students can lead to an internal religious orientation.

Highlights

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Abdaleati, N. S., Mohd Zaharim, N., & Mydin, Y. O. (2016). Religiousness and mental health: Systematic review study. Journal Relig Health, 55(6): 1929-37. [Link]
Al-Tamimi, E. M. R., & Al-Khawaldeh, N. A. (2016). Emotional intelligence and its relation with the social skills and religious behavior of female student at Damman University in the light of some variables. International Education Studies, 9(3): 131-147. [Link]
Assouad, A., & Parboteeah, K. P. (2018). Religion and innovation. A country
institutional approach. Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, 15: 20-37. [link]
Barmola, K. C. (2015). Religion/spirituality and mental health of students. Journal of Environmental and Social Sciences, 2(1). [Link]
Barutcu, C. D. (2017). The Relationship between Problem Solving and Creative Thinking Skills among Nursing Students. International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 4(2): 34-41. [Link]
Behere, P. B.,  Das, A., Yadav, R., &  Behere, P. A. (2013). Religion and mental health. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 55(2): 187-194. [Link]
Darvyri, P., Galanakis, M., Avgoustidis, A. G., Pateraki, N., Vasdekis, S., & Darvyri, C. (2014). The Revised Intrinsic/Extrinsic Religious Orientation Scale in a sample of Attica’s Inhabitants. Psychology, 5: 1557-1567. [link]
Dolev, N., & Leshem, SH., (2016). Teachers’ emotional intelligence: The impact of training. Special Issue, 8 (1): 5-94 .[Link]
Dowlati, H., &  Parvestan, N. (2016). The role of life skills in explaining the social competence of boarding school students. The Social Sciences, 11(6):  947-951. [Link]
Franco, M. D. G., Beja, M. J., Candeias, A., & Santos, N. (2017). Emotion Understanding, Social Competence and School Achievement in Children from Primary School in Portugal. Frontiers in Psychology, 8: 1376. [link]
Gorsuch, R., & McPherson, S. (1989). Intrinsic/Extrinsic Measurement: I/E-Revised and single-item scales. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 28(3): 348-354. [Link].
Iarocci, G., & Gardiner, E. (2015). Social competence during adolescence across cultures. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition) (pp. 216-221). Oxford: Elsevier. [Link]
Idler, E. L. (2015). Religion and health. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 20: 269–272. [Link]
Jamalzehi Moghaddam, M., & Balaghat, S. R. (2019). Relationship between parent’s religious orientation, verbal communication and sociability of primary school
students (second course) in Zahedan city. Utopia y Praxis Latinoamericana, 24(6): 396-406. [Link]
Khorakian, A., Hemsworth, D., Jahangir, M., Maharati, Y.,  Bagherpour, E. S.,  & Muterera, J. (2020). The Effects of Religious Orientations on Malevolent Creativity: Role of Positive Emotions and Spiritual Intelligence. Creativity Research Journal, 32(4): 1-10. [link]
Kline, R. B. (2016). Principles and practice of structural equation modeling (4th Ed.). Guilford Publications. [Link]
Liu, Z., Guo, Q., Sun, P., Wang, Z., & Wu, R., (2018). Does Religion Hinder Creativity? A National Level Study on the Roles of Religiosity and Different Denominations. Journal of Frontiers in Psychology, 9: 1-12. [link]
Lowicki, P., & Zajenkowski, M. (2017). Divine Emotions: On the Link Between Emotional Intelligence and Religious Belief. Journal of Religion and Health, 56: 1998–2009. [Link]
Macpherson, J. S., & Kelly, S. W. (2011). Creativity and positive schizotypy the conflict between science and religion. Personality and Individual Differences, 50(4): 446-450. [Link]
Mattingly, V., & Kraiger, K. (2019). Can emotional intelligence be trained? A meta-analytical investigation. Human Resource Management Review, 29(2): 140-155. [Link]
Mynbayeva, A., Vishnevskay, A., & Sadvakassova, Z. (2016). Experimental study of developing creativity of university students. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 217: 407-413. [Link]
Nawaz, N. (2020). An Empirical Study on Social Competence in Relation to Emotional Intelligence in Bahrain. Available at SSRN. [Link]
Rosmarin, D. H., Alper, D. A., & Pargament, K. I. (2016). Religion, spirituality and mental health. Sciencedirect, Elsevier, Encyclopedia of Mental Health, 4. [Link]
Samawi, F. S. F. (2013). Happiness and its relation with emotional intelligence and religiosity among the students of world Islamic Sciences and Education University. The Journal of Studis for Educational Science, 40(2): 729-747. [Link]
Suh, H. (2019). Creativity and Social Competence of Young Children:The Mediating Role of Emotional Intelligence. International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE), 8(3): 2278-3075. [Link]
 Vaquero, M. D., Torrijos, P. F., &  Rodriguez, M. J. C. (2020). Relation between perceived emotional intelligence and social factors in the educational context of Brazilian adolescents. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 33(1). [Link] 

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