Cognitive and Socio Emotional Predictors of Spiritual Consciousness

Abstract

Spiritual Consciousness can be defined as a fundamental internal resource around which the primary values of individual cluster. It directs life and instills purpose of life in an individual. The present researcher tried to explore the Cognitive, Social and Emotional predictors of Spiritual Consciousness. The current researcher values subjective experience to the core and believes that there lies vast untapped information within each individual that exists. Thus, researcher decided to study the contribution of Mindfulness, Empathy, Forgiveness, and Intuitiveness in the determination of Spiritual Consciousness among adults. Mindfulness, Empathy, Forgiveness and Intuitiveness were chosen due to its aptness to the current century and keeping in mind the value these variables hold within themselves. It was hypothesized that there would be positive correlation between predictor variables and criterion variable and the predictors would have positive contribution in the determination of Spiritual Consciousness. newlineA sample of 200 adults (100 male and 100 female) were chosen with convenient sampling from Agra and its adjacent areas. A correlational design was used to test the hypotheses. In the present research to measure Spiritual Consciousness; Spiritual Consciousness Scale (SCS-SIA) was constructed by the researcher in 2019. Its reliability, validity and norms were also established. The scores of the scale were normally distributed. To measure Mindfulness, Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) by Warren (2003), to measure Empathy, Murthy Empathy Scale (MES) by Murthy (2015), to measure Forgiveness, Forgiveness Scale by Pragya and Pragya (2005) and to measure Intuitiveness, Self -Analysis Scale by Aggarwala, Pyari and Satsangee (2013) were used. newlineThe results indicated that Mindfulness (r = .21), Empathy (r = .27), Forgiveness (r = .29) and Intuitiveness (r = .32) were positively correlated to Spiritual Consciousness. Also, Multiple Regression Analysis showed contribution of intuitiveness (b =.477) was remarkably much more as compared to that of other three predictor variables Mindfulness (b =.135), Empathy (b =.180) and Forgiveness (b =.250). The current researcher promotes future research in the field due to its vastness which needs yet to be discovered scientifically. newline newline