Varsity’s cure for the trauma: Spirituality

AYESHA KHAN

VADODARA, JANUARY 18: Sceptics may dismiss it as new age mumbo jumbo, but spirituality is all set to wrap its halo around psychology studies as well. SQ — spiritual quotient — is all set to be the new psychological tool for personality evaluation, courtesy the Psychology Department of M.S. University in Gujarat, which is formulating the first tool to measure SQ.

Significantly, SQ has been made a component of research at MSU to study the traumatic effect of terrorism in Assam and the quake in Gujarat. The Department has undertaken a study of quake-affected victims in three villages of Bhuj and Anjar to study the link between the ability to bear trauma and the spiritual intelligence of victims.

Professor C.N. Daftuar, under whose guidance the research work on SQ is being conducted, said that the hypothesis is also being tested to study post-traumatic stress of insurgency victims in Assam. For the last two years the Department has been working to evolve a tool to measure SQ. But it was Kiran Bedi who highlighted the topic in her address at the university recently.

While Chandarani Dasgupta and Tripti Bawari have carried out their PG research studies on correlation between coping abilities of trauma victims, Nira Manghrani is constructing a tool to measure SQ.