Role Conflict and Performance of Part Time Students in Indonesia with Spiritual Intelligence Effect

Abstract

This paper presented a research framework explaining the part-time students’ performance from the perspective of role conflict for part-time students who were studying at Indonesian private higher institutions. The theoretical relationship between role conflict and performance tested on part-time students offered a new perspective to look into the existing framework, both of academic and work performance were tested. Spiritual intelligence was positioned as the moderating variable. It was an interesting model to observe because they had to divide their time between working and studying, where performance issues had to be observed differently from full-time students. This research examined how the role of spiritual intelligence was able to minimize the influence of role conflicts experienced by them. The study employed a quantitative approach with descriptive methods and relevant inferential statistics. A Likert scale was employed to measure the extent to which the spiritual intelligence variable moderated the role conflict experienced by part-time students. The proposed framework was considered highly reliable for examining the performance of part-time students through the lens of role conflict and the concept of spiritual intelligence played a crucial role in our model. Academic performance and work performance were negatively and significantly influenced by role conflict. In contrast, spiritual intelligence had a positive and significant effect on role conflict.