The Role of Spiritual Intelligence in Developing Individual Emotional Intelligence In Interacting Based on An Islamic Perspective

This study aims to investigate the role of spiritual intelligence on emotional development based on an Islamic perspective. This study also attempts to develop a scale of spiritual and emotional intelligence. The research method used in this study is factorial design analysis because it investigates the relationship and role among spiritual and emotional intelligence. Participants involved in this study were staffs and students at universities in Indonesia totalling 300 employees and students. spiritual intelligence has a relationship and plays a significant role in the development of a person's emotional intelligence. The relationship was found in statistical analysis on spiritual and emotional intelligence dimensions in Islamic perspective. The spiritual dimensions in Islamic perspective that have a significant correlation with emotional intelligence are awareness of transcendental, life meaning, patience, forgiveness. The most significant impact of spiritual intelligence is seen in the emotional regulation component, followed by the use of emotions, judgment of other people's emotions, and finally judgment of one's own emotions. In addition, the emotional intelligence of employee and student resources plays a very significant role in the development of universities because employees and students with good spiritual and emotional intelligence will have better endurance, be productive, and religious. So, the level of spiritual intelligence has a great impact on the emotional intelligence of employees and students and vice versa, so that employees and students who have good spiritual intelligence will be better able to control their emotional levels. In addition, this study also produces a scale of spiritual intelligence and a scale of emotional intelligence based on an Islamic perspective and validates the items in the scale empirically. The results of the development of spiritual and emotional intelligence scale items obtained 16 items each on the measurement scale. The implication of this study is that the development of human resources in higher education can be carried out through the development of spiritual and emotional intelligence based on an Islamic perspective by stakeholders. Stakeholders can monitor, evaluate, and implement programs to develop the spiritual intelligence and emotional intelligence of employees and students so that employees and students are better prepared to enter the world of work.