the relationships between leadership styles and spiritual intelligence among school principles

in the present descriptive-correlational study, the relationships between leadership styles and spiritual intelligence were studied among a group of school principals. the population included all school principals working in tehran’s fourth educational district throughout the school year 2011-2012. out of the whole population, 156 subjects were selected through stratified random sampling method. data were collected by means of ‘the spiritual intelligence questionnaire’ (sohrabi & naseri, 2007) and ‘the multifactor leadership questionnaire’ (bass & avolio, 2000) and analyzed through multiple regression analysis and cronbach’s alpha coefficient. the results indicated positive significant relationships between transactional and transformational leadership styles and spiritual intelligence and that transcendental self-consciousness alone can predict almost %36.2 and %14.6 of variations in transformational and transactional leadership styles respectively. moreover, a significant relationship was observed between the non-interference leadership style and spiritual intelligence so that %2.9 of variations in this style could be predicted by self-consciousness and %3.2 by patience.