Date of Award
Fall 9-30-2022
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Education (EdD)
Department
Organizational Leadership
First Advisor
Carol Riley
Second Advisor
Marilou Ryder
Third Advisor
Carlos V. Guzman
Abstract
The Perceived Impact of the Five Domains of Spiritual Intelligence on the California Community College Administrators on the Integrated Spiritual Intelligence Scale and Their Ability to Lead by Senorina S. Saldivar Purpose: The purpose of this mixed method study was to explore and describe the perceived impact and use of the five areas (consciousness, grace, meaning, transcendence and truth) of Integrated Spiritual Intelligence Scale (ISIS) on California Community College CalWORKs Directors/Coordinators’ leadership. Methodology: This mixed-method study explored and described the perceived impact that the five areas of ISIS (consciousness, grace, meaning, transcendence and truth) have on eight California Community College (CCC) CalWORKs Directors/Coordinators’ leadership. The research designed consisted of qualitative and quantitative data. Amram’s (2007a) short version of ISIS was used for the quantitative area of the study. The ISIS questionnaire was used to identify the five domains of spiritual intelligence (SI). Once the five domains were identified, interviews were used to collect the qualitative data. Findings. The qualitative findings suggest that CCC CalWORKs Directors/Coordinators answers to the interview yield six major themes, which are: perceptions of: consciousness, meaning, grace, transcendence, truth, and other related qualities of good leaders. The quantitative findings showed that the eight CCC CalWORKs Directors/Coordinators use all of the five domains of ISIS, but consciousness and meaning had the higher scores. Overall, findings revealed participants leveraged spiritual intelligence in their leadership, to varying degrees.
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Recommended Citation
Saldivar, Senorina, "The Perceived Impact of the Five Areas of Spiritual Intelligence of California Community College Administrators on the Integrated Spiritual Intelligence Scale and Their Ability to Lead" (2022). Dissertations. 471.
https://digitalcommons.umassglobal.edu/edd_dissertations/471