Impact of spiritual intelligence on perceived stress and resilience among youth
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2021
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Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
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The present study entitled “Impact of spiritual intelligence on perceived stress and resilience
among youth” was undertaken to assess the impact of spiritual intelligence on perceived stress
and resilience among youth in joint and nuclear families aged between 23-24 years studying
in Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. The total sample comprised of 160 post graduate
students from five constituent colleges of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. Multi
stage purposive random sampling was employed to draw sample from different colleges
which were equally distributed over the family structure (80 nuclear families and 80 joint
families) and gender (80 males and 80 females). A self structured personal information sheet,
Spiritual Intelligence Scale (Zainuddin and Ahmed 2010), Stress Scale (Lakshmi and Narain
2014) and Resilience Scale (Wagnild and Young 1993) were used to collect the relevant
information from the respondents. Results revealed that youth from joint families had high
spiritual intelligence with significant differences in the dimensions of inner self, inter self,
biostoria, life perspectives, spiritual actualization and value orientation. With regard to
perceived stress, youth belonging to nuclear families were found to score higher mean scores
at high level in the dimensions of pressure, physical stress, anxiety and frustration while,
youth from joint families were found to have significantly higher resilience with majority of
them exhibiting moderate level of resilience. Gender-wise differences revealed that female
respondents had high spiritual intelligence with significant differences in inner self, inter self,
biostoria, life perspectives, spiritual actualization and value orientation against males whereas
male respondents were found to have significantly greater perceived stress as compared to
their female counterparts in the dimensions of pressure, physical stress, anxiety and
frustration however high level of pressure and anxiety was exhibited by female respondents
significantly. In terms of resilience, female respondents were recorded to be significantly
better resilient as compared to males. Regression analysis proved that spiritual intelligence
had negatively contributed to perceived stress and positively contributed to resilience
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Gedela Navya (2021). Impact of spiritual intelligence on perceived stress and resilience among youth (Unpublished M.Sc. thesis). Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.