Nikta Nazemi Zand, Somayeh Alirezaei Moghaddam Bejestani and Neda Ali Beighi
The main aim of the study is to compare the spiritual intelligence, meta-cognitive beliefs, life expectancy and their interaction in people with multiple sclerosis and healthy people. The research communities of the patients with M.S referred to the institute of M.S were related to Iranian M.S center including 90 ones who were taken up randomly and 90 people as healthy subjects were selected as the sample of the study. The spiritual intelligence questionnaire was used to evaluate the meta-cognitive beliefs and life expectancy of the participants; the results showed that there is a significant difference between spiritual intelligence of people with M.S and healthy people. In both elements of negative meta-cognitive and cognition efficacy found significant differences between the groups. In the variable of hoping to life, no any significant difference found between the related groups. Also, the correlation results indicated that there is a significant relationship between spiritual intelligence and life expectancy increasingly; the results represent the fact that the spiritual intelligence predicts 36.6% of the variance in life expectancy. Of meta-cognitive beliefs, there are relationships between positive meta-cognition beliefs in relation to concern, negative beliefs about the same concern, low cognition efficacy, and negative meta cognition in relation to thoughts and life expectancy; in other words, with reduction of these beliefs, life expectancy increases; the results representing the fact that meta cognitive beliefs predicts 26.1% of life expectancy variance totally.
