Personality Traits and the Spiritual and Moral Intelligence of Early Adulthood in Poland: Research Reports
Muhammet Fatih GENÇ
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
11. It is necessary to add the country of study or the nationality of the research group in the title.
2. The abstract needs improving. It is too long, the references in the abstract are redundant. It is a good idea to shorten the part related to the current research results and hypotheses and definitely to add the information about the nationality or the country of the research group.
3 3. The structure of the article needs improving. You can find my suggestion below:
1. Introduction
1.1. Spiritual intelligence
1.2. Moral intelligence
1.3. The present study
2. Materials and methods
2.1. Respondents and Procedure
2.2. Measures
3. Results
4. Discussion
44. Introduction needs redrafting. I suggest you resign from using coursebook definitions of intelligence or move them to the part concerning spiritual intelligence. In the introduction, the variables analysed were defined in such a way as not to show their connections to the other variables under consideration. The choice of variables is not clear as well. Moreover, it is worth taking care of consistency and continuity of the argument.
5. I suggest you reconsider the following subtitles: ‘The issue of spiritual intelligence’, ‘Moral intelligence in the literature’, whose present form is too ‘school-like’ for an academic paper. It is not clear enough why only three of the constructs analysed were discussed. The missing part concerns the issue of personality traits.
66. Spiritual intelligence – some of the descriptions referring to past research include the information about the group size (lines 167 – 173). This information is not necessary and it should be removed, but the results of the analyses can stay. It would be a good idea to emphasise the outcomes of the search and not to describe specific studies.
77. Instead of Research method I suggest The present study. In this part of the text you need to give up on hypotheses and problems and provide rationale for the analyses undertaken as well as indicate article objectives.
88. Procedure and respondents – standard deviation along with the mean should be added to the description of the study participants’ age.
99. Methods – it is worth adding the sample questions from particular scales. The authors indicate that Yakut-Moral Intelligence Scale does not have a Polish adaptation and that they used only its translation. I am afraid that the translation will not be sufficient. It would be recommended to use a back translation as well as the structure analysis of the Polish version of the scale. In the description of TIPI the explanations of particular traits were included. Yet, this is not the case when it comes to other scales, which makes the description inconsistent and incoherent. In the TIPI characteristics the information about subscale reliability is missing.
110. Results – in the description of the results below table 2 only r value was included, without p value. It is worth adding mediation and moderator analyses to the results.
111. Discussion – the Author / Authors claim that ‘We also wanted to investigate whether age and personality traits showed 364 associations with moral and spiritual intelligence,’ whereas age was no the subject of the analysis – it was only one of the aspects charaterising the research group. Moreover, the goal is to look for relationships instead of correlations. In the discussion it would also be better to write about relationships than correlations. The discussion, in its present form, is rather a repetition of the results than interpretation – it needs modifying.
112. References – they need improvement. Some positions contain unnecessary brackets (for example Altalha, Ghada Saad Suliman. (2022). The Role of Spiritual…), unnecessary underlinings (for example Ayoub, Alaa Eldin A., and Aljughaiman...; Kraczla, Magdalena. 2017. Osobowość jako czynnik zachowań menedżerskich w świetle teorii Wielkiej Piątki. Zeszyty Naukowe. Organizacja i Zarządzanie), wrong italics (Moghadas, Maedeh. and Khaleghi, Maryam. 2013. Investigate of …). There are no English translations of publication titles in Polish (for example Socha, Paweł red. 2000. Duchowy rozwój człowieka…; Sorokowska, Agnieszka, Słowińska, Aleksandra., Zbieg, Anita., and Sorokowski, Piotr. 2014. Polska adaptacja testu…). Doi numbers are missing as well.
Author Response
Responses to Reviewer I's comments can be found in the appendix.
Author Response File: 
Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 2 Report
The article as a whole caught my attention. However, the fact that the number of male and female participants is not equal in the sample size of the article can be seen as a deficiency. Again, an analysis can be made according to the gender variable. Because you have included some studies according to this gender variable in the literature part of the article. In addition, the fact that there are 160 people filling out the questionnaire can be seen as a deficiency.Author Response
Responses to Reviewer II's comments can be found in the appendix.
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
