Abstract:
The research has been performed to the aim of modeling the structural relationship between perfectionism and life expectancy through the mediating role of moral and spiritual intelligences in young Islamic Azad University directors (Mazandaran Province). This applied method of research in terms of objective is considered as a structural study as far as method of research is concerned. Statistical population of the research included all 524 directors in Islamic Azad University from among which 225 individuals have been selected based on stratified random sampling as the statistical sample. Perfectionism questionnaire developed by Asadpour, life expectancy questionnaire developed by Schneider et al., moral intelligence questionnaire developed by Lenik and Kiel and spiritual intelligence questionnaire by King have been used for data collection. In present research, structural validity of tools has been verified and their reliability has been computed through Cronbach’s alpha coefficient test and combined reliability which is statistically confirmed. According to the results, perfectionism, spiritual intelligence, and moral intelligence have direct and significant effect on life expectancy; and, considering the indirect path and effect of perfectionism on life expectancy through mediating role of spiritual intelligence and moral intelligence has been confirmed. In general, research model has been confirmed and research variables have been 70% capable of forecasting life expectancy variable. Considering the role played by moral intelligence and spiritual intelligence on life expectancy, planning has to be made in organizations for promotion of spiritual intelligence and moral intelligence; and destructive and negative effects of perfectionism have to be identified and trained.
Machine summary:
Therefore, present research is looking for answering the following main question: “What is the structural model of the relationship between perfectionism and life expectancy through mediating role played by moral and spiritual intelligence in young directors of Islamic Azad University in Mazandaran Province?” 2.
1. Initial Model To study conceptual model presented in the research, initial model has been analyzed with consideration of forecasting life expectancy in direct paths through following variables: perfectionism, spiritual intelligence, and moral intelligence.
Considering table 4, direct paths have direct effect on spiritual intelligence through variables of perfectionism, life expectancy, and moral intelligence.
According to the results, values obtained from standardized beta of perfectionism, spiritual intelligence, and moral intelligence on life expectancy are respectively equal to 0.
Considering the concept of perfectionism, it is found that the structure in its negative aspect is a personality variable leading to various types of psychological problems including making effort to reach perfection and believing in failure not being acceptable in the way of achieving perfection.
Moral intelligence has direct effect on life expectancy of directors Considering the results from analysis, second hypothesis i.
e. moral intelligence has direct effect on life expectancy of directors; and, the results related to the relationship of variables with each other is in line with the findings from Kwaghgbah, Iortsughun, Aondona (2017), Pahlavan and Ebrahiminejad (2016), ), Ebrahim and Al-Mohsain (2016) and Zare’ Khalili (2013).