Psychological Effects of Spiritual Intelligence and Creativity on

Background and aim: the role of happiness and its sustained positive outcomes is evident in variousaspects of life. therefore, it is important to identify the factors affecting happiness. the purpose of thisstudy is to investigate the role of spiritual intelligence and creativity in happiness of students.methods: this was a descriptive-correlational study. the statistical population of this study is all secondgradehigh school students in karaj city in the academic year of 2017-2018. 414 students were selected bymultistage cluster sampling. oxford happiness questionnaire (ohi), king's spiritual intelligencequestionnaire (sisri), and abedi's creativity questionnaire (tc) were used for collecting data.results: the results showed that there is a significant correlation between spiritual intelligence andhappiness (r = 0.43), between creativity and happiness (r = 0.40), between spiritual intelligence andcreativity (r = 0.53). the results of regression analysis showed that spiritual intelligence and creativitypredict 22% of happiness variance.conclusion: the production of personal meaning (the component of spiritual intelligence) and fluidityand innovation (the components of creativity) are strong predictors for happiness.