Investigating the Relationship between Religiosity and Spiritual Intelligence with Attachment among High School Students in Rafsanjan

Abstract

Background and Objective: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between religiosity and spiritual intelligence with attachment among high school students in Rafsanjan. Descriptive research is of correlation type.
Methods and Materials: The statistical population of all high school students in Rafsanjan city was 6340 people. For this purpose, a sample of 252 people was selected by the convenience sampling method. To collect data for the attachment styles, Collins & Reid’s Attachment Questionnaire (1990), Serajzadeh’s Religiosity Questionnaire (1998) and King’s Spiritual Intelligence Questionnaire (2008) were used. Data were analyzed by Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, correlation matrix and multivariate regression.
Results: The results suggested that the relationship between religiosity and attachment style was positive and significant. The relationship between attachment style (secure ambivalent/anxious and avoidant) and spiritual intelligence dimensions such as critical existential thinking, personal meaning production, transcendental awareness, and conscious state expansion was positive and significant. Secure attachment style was a positive predictor, and ambivalent/avoidant a negative predictor of religiosity. Also, ambivalent/anxious attachment style was a positive and significant predictor of critical existential thinking, but anxious/ambivalent, secure and avoidant styles were negative and significant predictors of personal meaning production.