Spiritual intelligence and its relationship to academic passion among Female Students of University College Ranyah in Taif University

This study aimed to reveal the level of spiritual intelligence and level of academic passion among female students of the University College Bernie in Taif University, and the relationship between them. To achieve the objectives of the study, the Spiritual Intelligence Scale prepared by King and Cicco (2009) was used, consisting of (24) items, distributed in four domains (critical existential thinking, production of personal meaning, transcendent awareness, expansion of the cognitive state), and the Academic Passion Scale prepared by Valierand et al. (2003), consisting of (14) items distributed in two domains (harmonious passion, compulsive passion). The study sample consisted of (317) female students from the University College Bernie. The results of the study showed that the level of spiritual intelligence among female students was high, the level of academic passion as a whole was average, harmonious passion was high, and the level of compulsive passion was moderate. The results also indicated that there positive correlation between spiritual intelligence and academic passion among female college students. Based on the results of the study, the researcher recommends including teaching courses with topics related to spiritual intelligence and academic passion in order to develop them among female college students.
Keywords:
 Spiritual Intelligence, Academic Passion, University College Bernie.