Spiritual intelligence (SQ) among administrators of selected Christian colleges in Yangon, Myanmar and Baptist colleges in the island of Panay, Philippines

Abstract

This research aims to assess spiritual intelligence of selected administrators of the Christian colleges in Yangon, Myanmar and Panay Island, Philippines. Specifically, this research aims to: describe selected demographic characteristics of Christian administrators in terms of sex, age, education, religious affiliation, ethnic origin, and length of service; describe the Christian administrators in term of attendance in religious related training, and church or religious involvement; determine administrator’s level of spiritual intelligence in term of self-awareness, universal awareness, self-mastery, and spiritual presence; determine whether attendance in religious related training and involvement in religious activities of Christian administrators vary according to gender, age, education, ethnic, religion and length of service; determine whether the Christian administrator’s specific and over-all level of spiritual intelligence significantly vary according to their characteristics; determine whether attendance in religious related training, and religious involvement is significantly related to spiritual intelligence of administrators; determine whether the number of attendance in religious related training and number of involvement in religious activities are significantly related to spiritual intelligence of Christian administrators; determine relationship between Self Awareness and Universal Awareness, Self-Mastery and Spiritual Presence; Universal Awareness and Spiritual Presence, Spiritual presence and Self Mastery; determine to what extent do the administrators’ characteristics, attendance of religious related training, and church or religious involvement individually or collectively predict Spiritual Intelligence; and determine which of the factors (religious training and religious involvement) most strongly predict Spiritual Intelligence.