Author Name: – Vimala M, Dr. Anthony William George, | Date:- 8th Feb, 2025
Abstract
Background: Academic stress is a growing concern among undergraduate students, whereacademic competition and expectations are high. Excessive academic stress can negativelyaffect students’ mental health and academic performance. Spiritual intelligence ischaracterized as the capacity of humans to ponder the ultimate meaning and purpose and theintertwined nature of our relationship with the world around us. It helps individuals to managestress by promoting emotional stability, self-awareness, and resilience. This study explores therelationship between spiritual intelligence and academic stress among undergraduate studentsin North Bangalore, aiming to understand whether spiritual intelligence can act as a bufferagainst academic pressures.
Aim: The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between spiritual intelligence andacademic stress among undergraduate students in North Bangalore. It seeks to determinewhether higher levels of spiritual intelligence are associated with lower levels of academicstress. The study also aims to highlight the potential role of spiritual intelligence as a copingmechanism for managing academic stress.
Method: The scale used used for measuring the Spiritual Intelligence was ‘The SpiritualIntelligence Self-Report Inventory (SISRI-24)’ which was constructed by David King (2008).The Academic stress scale consisting of forty items representing five stressor domains namely;Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral, Physical and Social was developed (based on Sinha etal.,(2001)’s thirty item Scale for Assessing Academic Stress). The purposive sampling methodused to collect 217 male and female college students ranging between 18 to 25 years of age through Pearson’s correlational research design, regression analysis, and independent sample ttest, as a part of quantitative research
Result: The current study shows that there is a significant positive correlation betweenSpiritual intelligence and Academic stress among the graduate students and the findingsindicate that there was no significant difference among male and female students.
Keywords: Spiritual intelligence, Academic stress, Adolescence, Graduate, Relationship.
