Spiritual Intelligence And Mental Health In Blind Children

Abstract

Health and wellbeing are crucial aspects happy and fulfilling life. They are gaining significantly important role in dealing with the challenges in economic, social and public health worldwide; and spirituality that uses the psychological sciences’ methodology demonstrated positive effect on health (physical and mental), quality of life related to health and wellbeing, recovery from mental health problems/issues and coping skills. The present research aimed to study the spiritual intelligence and mental health in 96 visually impaired and blind children, studying in 9th & 10th standard from Three Districts of North Karnataka (Belagavi, Dharwad and Gadag). Spiritual intelligence scale by Hasan Abdollahzadesh and Baqherpour M et al. and Mental Health Check-list Scale by Dr. Pramod Kumar were used. Percentage method, Correlation and Chi-square tests were applied. Findings revealed that students with blindness had very high levels of Spiritual Intelligence and highly good level of Mental health, there was significant correlation between Spiritual Intelligence and Mental Health. Highly significant association was observed between Spiritual Intelligence and Parental living and socio-economic status; and there was significant association between parental living status and Mental Health.