Investigating the Relationship between Cognitive Flexibility and Spiritual Intelligence with Marital Satisfaction in Married Students

Mohammad Jamshidi, Yazdan Zarkhani, Mohammad Javad Azizian, Milad Ghazanfari

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The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between cognitive flexibility and spiritual intelligence with marital satisfaction in married students. The statistical population was all students of Islamic Azad University in the academic year of 2017-2018, in which 100 students were randomly selected and tested. To collect data, three cognitive flexibility questionnaires (CFI), Dennis & Vander Wal, the Innovative Spiritual Intelligence et al. The research method is descriptive-correlational. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between cognitive flexibility and spiritual intelligence. Also, there was no correlation between spiritual intelligence with marital satisfaction and cognitive flexibility with marital satisfaction, meaning that there is no relationship between cognitive flexibility and spiritual intelligence with marital satisfaction. The predictive role of cognitive flexibility and spiritual intelligence in marital satisfaction was also identified.

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