Effectiveness of counseling eclectic program in developing spiritual intelligence of university students

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The aim of this current research is to design a counseling eclectic program to increase spiritual intelligence of the university students and to verify its effectiveness.

It also aimed to identify the continuity of the program's impact.

A sample of 20 university students their age ranged between(19-23) years, with an average age of (19.54) years, and a standard deviation of (1.18), they were randomly divided to two experimental groups and control.

The research tools consisted of a Demographic Data Form and Spiritual Intelligence Scale (Prepared by Arnout, 2016) and a program based on eclectic counseling theory prepared by the researcher.

The results of the study revealed statistically significant differences at the level of (0.01) between the average of the control and experimental groups in the spiritual intelligence measure in the posttest in favor of the experimental group members.

There were statistically significant differences at the level of (0.01) between the mean scores of the experimental group in the pretest and posttest.

In addition there was no statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental group in the posttest and the follow-up test in the spiritual intelligence.

Thus, the continuity of improvement and the impact of the counseling eclectic program have been achieved.

The results of the research were explained in light of the theoretical framework and previous studies.

The researchers also came up a number of recommendations.

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