THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AND PERSONALITY AMONG WORKING WOMEN AND HOME MAKERS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
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Spiritual Intelligence, Psychological Well-being, PersonalityAbstract
Background-Psychological constructs such as spiritual intelligence, psychological well-being and personality plays a very important role in shaping one’s behaviour in order to deal effectively with the various situations of the life. Aim- The present study was carried out on 60 working women and 60 home-makers with an aim to establish the association between spiritual intelligence, psychological well-being and personality and compare the level of spiritual intelligence, psychological well-being, and personality among working women and house maker. As a tools of data collection Integrated Spiritual Intelligence Scale (Amram ,2008), Psychological Well-being Scale (Ryff ,1995) and NEO-FFI (McCrae and Costa ,1992) were administered on the sample to achieve the objectives of the study. Results- The findings of the study stated that there is a significant relation between spiritual intelligence, psychological well-being, and personality. Also, there was significant difference in all the selected variables between working women and home-makers.
Key Words- Spiritual Intelligence, Psychological Well-being, Personality
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