ANALYSIS OF SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE LEVEL AMONG YOUTH BASED ON DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS

Spiritual intelligence plays a role in determining the direction of youth life as well as a way of life in carrying out what Allah SWT has commanded and being a fortress from doing things that are forbidden. In this developing age, it is seen that social problems among the youth, especially at the level of adolescent youth, are getting worse, causing concern among the community. The results of previous studies found that the spiritual intelligence of youth has been done at various demographic levels. The results of previous studies show that there are differences based on demographic factors, for example, youths who attend religious schools have a higher level of spiritual intelligence than youths who attend regular schools. Thus, this study was conducted empirically to look at the differences in the level of spiritual intelligence of youth based on demographic factors. The respondents of this study are youths who have participated in the Program Latihan Khidmat Negara (PLKN) in session 1 of 2017. A census of 641 respondents was conducted on six PLKN camps in the Northern Zone. A quantitative study was conducted by distributing questionnaires as an instrument to obtain research data. Next, the data were analysed using descriptive statistics using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) software. The results show that the level of spiritual intelligence of a youth is different based on certain demographic characteristics such as gender, type of secondary school, secondary school category, age of beginning to know religion, age of beginning to learn prayer, and also the location of youth residence. Therefore, the results of this study can be used as a guide in implementing a plan to improve the spiritual intelligence of youth by taking into account the demographic characteristics that have significant differences based on the level of spiritual intelligence of youth.