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Abhijith V Rajeev
Aleena Jose
Alphy Andrews
Anitta Mathew
Anjana Varghese
Anu Thomas
Praveena P
Kavitha B
Nursing students across the world experience stress and anxiety during their training and education. In order to cope with their stress, students are using lot of coping strategies. Among all Spirituality is one of the coping strategies that they usually s tart from their childhood and to some extent, it is in built in them.In view of this, a study was undertaken with an aim to assess the spiritual intelligence and its influence on selected coping strategy among nursing students at selected college, Thrissur . The main objectives were to assess the level of spiritual intelligence among nursing students, to assess the influence of spiritual intelligence on selected coping strategy among nursing students and to find out the association between spiritual intelli gence among the nursing students with their selected demographic variables. Descriptive design was used and the sample were 215 Bsc nursing students who fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Purposive sampling technique was used. The data was col lected usingDemographic sheet, scale of spiritual intelligence and ‘Brief R cope scale ’. The study finding revealed that only 5 (2 %) students had high level of spiritual intelligence, 10 (5 %)students had moderate level of spiritual intelligence whereas 2 00 (93 %) of students having low level of spiritual intelligence. A negative correlation -0.55* was found between the spiritual intelligence of nursing students and coping strategies which is statistically significant at 0.05 level of significance .This d epicts that spiritual intelligence is inversely proportionate to the coping strategies used by the students during their stressful period. The association between spiritual intelligence of B.sc nursing students with their selected demographic variables su ch as occupational status of mother (6.004*), Frequency of praying (35.62*), Frequency of attending religious centers (35.44*) are found to be statistically significant at 0.05 level of significance.
Keywords: Spiritual intelligence, Selected Coping scale, Influences, Nursing students