Browsing by Author "Khadijah Khalilah Abdul Rashid, Ph.D"

This research seeks to reveal the spiritual intelligence and its relationship with teaching motivation among teachers in Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate in Oman, based on the variations of (academic qualification, years of service, specialization and academic stage). In addition, to explore the effect of the spiritual intelligence in predicting the motivation of teaching for teachers. The research adopted the descriptive approach. For processing the data, the researcher applied the descriptive statistics methods, t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson correlation coefficient, and multiple linear regression test. The research population consisted of 7568 male and female teachers of public schools in the Governorate of Ad Dakhiliyah in the Sultanate of Oman, distributed over 145 schools, of which 45 are for males with 2332 teachers, and 95 schools for females with 5236 female teachers. The study sample consisted of 384 male and female teachers, including teachers at the schools of the first cycle, the second cycle and post-basic. The researcher applied the spiritual intelligence questionnaire and the teaching motivation for teacher’s questionnaire. The research concluded that the level of teaching motivation for the sample was high, as the average mathematical score achieved 4.15. Also, the level of spiritual intelligence for the study sample was high, as the average mathematical score achieved 4.00. there is a statistically significant positive correlation between the spiritual intelligence and the teaching motivation. There are no differences at the level of teaching motivation for the research sample attributed to the study variables, i.e., (gender. Academic qualification, years of services, specialization and academic stage). On the other hand, However, there are statistically significant differences in spiritual intelligence attributed to the gender variable in favor of males, there are no statistically significant differences in spiritual intelligence attributed to the variables educational qualification, years of service, specialization, and educational stages. Besides, the spiritual intelligence may contribute in predicting the teaching motivation by 39.2% of change in the level of teaching motivation for the research sample of teachers.

ABSTRACT This research aimed to study the impact of Spiritual Intelligence on Socialization Patterns of children among Omani spouses, and to verify the role of Marital Communication Skills as a mediator. It also aimed to measure: the level of spiritual intelligence, the quality of marital communication skills and the level of using socialization patterns with children. It also aimed to reveal the impact of spiritual intelligence on marital communication skills, and the impact of spiritual intelligence and marital communication skills on the patterns of socialization of children. A scale consisting of three variables was applied: spiritual intelligence as an independent variable and consisting of four dimensions: (spiritual practice, transcendence, balance, and self-awareness), marital communication skills as a mediating variable, and consisting of five skills: (ability to dialogue, ability to listen, ability to understand, solving marital problems, emotional expression), and socialization patterns as a dependent variable, and consisting of ten patterns: (accepting children, cooperation between family members, taking into consideration the inclinations of children, dialogue with children, children bearing responsibility, caring for children, equality between children, protection for children, consistency in treating children, moderation in treatment of children). The scale was applied to a random sample of (397) spouses Omani. SPSS program was used to find descriptive statistics. The Amos program was also used to conduct confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and path analysis. The results indicated that the structural model achieved the fit indices. It also proved the composite reliability, and both convergent and discriminant validity. The results also revealed that marital communication skills play role of a partial mediator in the relationship between spiritual intelligence and socialization patterns. Results showed that the level of spiritual intelligence was very high, the level of quality of marital communication skills was high, and the level of practicing socialization patterns with children was very high. The results also indicated a strong, direct, significant positive impact (0.655) of spiritual intelligence on marital communication skills, and a weak, direct, significant positive impact (0.314) of spiritual intelligence on socialization patterns. The results also showed a weak, direct, significant positive impact (0.371) of marital communication skills on socialization patterns. The research presented a set of recommendations to entities concerned with family development.