The development of creativity and innovation is needed in preparing today’s generations to face challenges in their future. However, the main focus in creativity and innovation development process is on cognitive, affective, imagination and practises (psychomotor) that allow total freedom for individual to present their product. In fact, unfortunately this will make them losing their own direction. Therefore, this article tries to integrate between the development of creativity and innovation with spiritual element, which the vital component and the main guidance for decision making in any innovation process. Indeed, this spiritual element is closely related with one of the basic concepts in Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, (TRIZ) which is ideality. TRIZ has been introduced in Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) since 2017 where this theory proposed four basic concepts in inventive problem solving. The concept of ideality opens up an opportunity for researcher to integrate and prove that the concept is related with the element of spirituality. By inculcate the spiritual element in innovative process, this will eventually lead to the development of spiritual intelligence of God-consciousness, which is one of the core value in UMP. It is also a basic principle to guide our young generation about the real meaning of freedom and at the same time it acts as a main value in developing students’ soft skills. What’s important, this value also will give a good direction in innovation and educate our students to make more effective decision in problem solving process as what is emphasized in this article.

Tinjauan literatur mendapati pelbagai instrumen digunakan bagi mengukur tahap kesihatan mental individu dan mengaitkannya dengan pelbagai perkara. Namun demkian, menggabungkan pelbagai instrumen soal selidik dalam satu kajian memungkinkan bilang item yang tinggi. Oleh itu, kaedah statistik analisis faktor dicadangkan untuk mengurangkan bilangan item pada masa sama meningkatan kesahan dan kebolehpercayaan kajian. Kajian ini bertujuan mengenal pasti susunan 69 item soal selidik termasuk kebolehpercayaan dari aspek kesihatan mental, kebahagiaan hidup, dan kecerdasan spiritual. Instrumen ditadbir dalam kalangan 500 pelajar sarjana muda bidang kejuruteraan salah sebuah universiti teknikal awam yang dipilih secara rawak sukarela. Pengukuran jawapan item menggunakan skala likert 5 mata. Pendekatan kuantitatif sepenuhnya diguna pada instrumen, pengukuran jawapan, dan analisis. Hasil ujian Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure menunjukkan item-item sesuai bagi analisis faktor. Pengiraan total variance explained mendapati 3 faktor dicadangkan bagi item-item instrumen. Seterusnya keputusan rotated component matrik mencadangkan semua item disusun semula dengan 23 item asal disingkirkan. Analisis kebolehpercayaan memberikan nilai alfa Cronbach = 0.872 yang membolehkan semua item diterima. Perbincangan hasil analisis dan kajian tinjauan saling menyokong keperluan kajian rintis dan ujian kesahan sebelum penggunaan instrumen pada kajian sebenar berskala besar bagi tujuan pengukuran tahap kesihatan mental, kebahagiaan hidup, dan kecerdasan spiritual. Implikasi kajian membolehkan instrumen diyakini dan dipercayai digunakan bagi tema kajian yang sama.