the relationship of general health, hardiness and spiritual intelligence relationship in iranian nurses.

objective: nursing is one of the stressful jobs that affect nurse's well-being. the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between spiritual intelligence, hardiness and well-being among iranian nurses. methods: samples of this cross- sectional study selected by randomized stratified sampling, 125 nurses who have been working in different wards of bushehr university hospitals. data were collected using spiritual intelligence, hardiness, well-being and demographic characteristics questionnaires. correlation, t-test, anova, tukey and regression analysis were applied. results: the results revealed a significant relationship between spiritual intelligence and hardiness, spiritual intelligence and well-being, hardiness and well-being. it also showed that among the demographic characteristics (age, gender, working ward, marital status, job experiences, and education) working ward significantly correlated with spiritual intelligence. conclusion: improvement of spiritual intelligence and reinforcement of hardiness could help increase the well-being of nurses.