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Impact of Spiritual Intelligence on the staff happiness (Case study: Golpayegan Petrochemical Company)

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Spiritual intelligence as a infrastructure of individuals beliefs, have a basic role in the various fields particularly in the promotion and provision of mental health and the other hand, importance of happiness in the mental health, physical health, efficiency and social participation are the most important priorities in the psychology. The aim of this study is investigation of relationship between spiritual intelligence and staff happiness of Golpayegan Petrochemical Company. This study is descriptive survey and of correlation branch with the functional nature. The statistical population includes employees of Golpayegan Petrochemical Company and questionnaire was used for data collection. Formal justifiability was used to determine questionnaire justifiability. Cronbach's alpha reliability amount of 94% was confirmed. In this study, software SPSS and AMOS was used for data analysis. Component of spiritual intelligence: transcendental consciousness, spiritual experience, patience and forgiveness were tested with the staff happiness and it is determined that there is a significant relationship between spiritual intelligence variable with the staff happiness variable.
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