The Relationship Between Cultural Intelligence, Spiritual Intelligence, And Social Intelligence With Job Satisfaction In Employees Of Social Security Organization Of Gorgan, Iran

Research Article
Hamid Reza Shabani and Mojtaba Rezaeirad
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Subject: 
science
KeyWords: 
Cultural Intelligence, Spiritual Intelligence, Social Intelligence, job Satisfaction.
Abstract: 

The present study aimed at determination of the relationship between cultural intelligence, spiritual intelligence, and social intelligence with job satisfaction in employees of social security organization of Gorgan, Iran. It was a descriptive and correlational study. Statistical population consisted of all employees of Social Security Organization in Gorgan in 2014 (100 persons). Eighty people were selected as the study sample through stratified sampling (branches) based on Krejcie and Morgan’s table. Data collection was performed by using Brayfield and Rothe's Index of Job Satisfaction (1951), Van Dyne and Ang’s Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS) (2006), Abdollahzadeh et al.’s Spiritual Intelligence Scale (2009), and Thet’s Social Intelligence Scale (2008). Validity and reliability of the questionnaires were confirmed by experts’ viewpoints and Cronbach’s Alpha, respectively; the Cronbach’s Alpha values for the bove-mentioned scales were 0.89, 0.85, 0.87, and 0.80, respectively. Data analysis was performed via descriptive (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation) and inferential (one-sample t-test and Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient) in SPSS (version 22). The results obtained from the present study revealed that cultural intelligence, spiritual intelligence, social intelligence, and job satisfaction of the employees are more than average. Also, the results indicated that there are significant correlations between cultural intelligence, spiritual intelligence, and social intelligence with job satisfaction of the employees.