The Moderating Role of Spiritual Intelligence on the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Identity Development in Adolescents

Current study was planned to investigate the moderating role of spiritual intelligence on the relationship between emotional intell igence and identity development in adolescent students. Purposive convenient sampling technique employed based on cross - sectional design . Participants were included from different colleges, and schools of twin cities Rawalpindi and Islamabad , Pakistan . Sample comprised of 2 00 students (Male n= 100, Female n= 100) with age range d from 12 to 18 years (M=16.53, SD=1.69). Three scales were employed to measure spiritual intelligence, emotional intelligence and identity development in adolescence students . Results revealed that Spiritual intelligence was highly related with more emotional intelligence and identity development in current study. Our study results revealed that spiritual intelligence was playing the role of significant moderator on the relationship between emotional intelligence and identity develop ment. This study found that th e spiritually intelligent adolescents, who were less emotionally intelligent , had a health ier Identity development than those who were less Spiritually Intelligent.