An Investigation into the Relationship between Altruistic Personality and the Sense of Self-Worth with the Mediation of Spiritual Intelligence among Students of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman

Self-worth is one of the most important human feelings that has an effect on different aspects of life such as motivation, depression, and... . It seems that the altruistic behaviors with the mediation of spiritual intelligence influence this sense. This research tried to examine the relationship between altruistic personality and the sense of self-worth with the mediation of spiritual intelligence. The population included students of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman and 329 students were selected as the sample by the convenience sampling. The questionnaires of Rushton's (1980) altruistic personality, King's (2008) spiritual intelligence, and Crocker et al.'s (2003) self-worth were used for gathering the data. The data were analyzed by the structural equation modeling. The SPSS-23 and AMOS-23 were used for analyzing the data. According to the results, although there is not a significant positive relationship between altruistic personality and self-worth, altruistic personality is related to self-worth through spiritual intelligence, and spiritual intelligence mediates the relationship between these two variables.