The portrait of spiritual intelligence and aggressiveness of university students

Abstract

Aggression is interpreted as a behavior that aims to hurt others physically and verbally. This study used quantitative approach through correlational method to find out the influence of spiritual intelligence (SQ) to the aggressiveness in university students. Students' aggressiveness was measured using adapted aggression questionnaire, while SQ was measured using the adapted spiritual intelligence scale. The sample technique used proportional random sampling technique and data analysis used regression test through SPSS 22. The findings of the research suggest that spiritual intelligence has a positive and significant effect on students' aggressiveness. The research results point out that SQ among the students encourages God spot activation. God spot leads students to show ideal behavior and find peaceful solution for every problem. God spot makes students crave on the transcendence; as the consequence, the deep love, peaceful, unity of existence arise in students' mind and behavior. The peaceful behavior significantly decreases students' aggressiveness Abstrak: Agresi sering diartikan sebagai suatu perilaku yang bertujuan untuk menyakiti orang lain baik secara fisik maupun verbal. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif, teknik penelitian yang digunakan adalah teknik korelasional untuk mengatahui pengaruh kecerdasan spiritual terhadap agresivitas mahasiswa. Agresi diukur dengan menggunakan hasil adaptasi dari skala aggression questionnaire dan kecerdasan spiritual yang diukur menggunakan skala yang diadaptasi dari skala SQ (spiritual quotient). Teknik sampel pada penelitian ini menggunakan proportional random sampling dan teknik analisis data dilakukan melalui uji regresi sederhana menggunakan SPSS 22. Berdasarkan temuan peneliti, kecerdasan spiritual berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap agresivitas mahasiswa Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kecerdasan spiritual pada mahasiswa mendorong pengaktivan god spot. Titik tuhan yang disebut god spot menyebabkan seseorang bersikap idealis dan mencari solusi atas problem yang ada. God spot membuat seseorang berhasrat pada sesuatu yang lebih tinggi (transenden), sehingga muncul rasa cinta yang mendalam, rasa damai yang mendalam, rasa kesatuan eksistensi, dan keindahan yang mendalam. Keinginan untuk berperilaku damai akan menurunkan agresivitas mahasiswa.

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