scholarly journals The Relationship Between Perceived Parental Attitude and Life Satisfaction Among University Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. E202128
Author(s):  
Nurten Arslan Işik

Introduction. The effect of parental attitudes and behaviors in raising their children on the individual’s life has been the subject of numerous studies for many years. There is a strong correlation between parental attitudes and the child’s ability to be satisfied with life. The objective of the research was to determine the relationships between perceived parental attitudes (overprotection, rejection, emotional warmth) and life satisfaction among university students. We investigated whether parental attitudes play a role in predicting life satisfaction among university students, and what role they play. Materials and Methods. The study was conducted from June 2020 to September 2020. Data were collected using Google Forms. Each person consented to anonymously participate in the study and was informed about the objectives of the study being a descriptive one. The population of the study consisted of nursing students enrolled in the Faculty of Health Sciences. For this purpose, 220 students at the age of 20 to 30 years participated in the study. The assessment battery consisted of Student Demographic Form, the Short-Egna Minnen Beträffande Uppfostran (Own Memories of Upbringing), and the Life Satisfaction Scale. Results. There was a significant negative correlation between maternal rejection and life satisfaction among the students. Male students were more likely to perceive their fathers as being disapproving than female students did. These findings were discussed in line with the studies in the related literature. Conclusions. High life satisfaction is a variable that protects young people from risk factors. Therefore, a focus should be placed on increasing life satisfaction among students. Parental attitude is an effective factor for life satisfaction among students. For this reason, it can be said that it would be beneficial to inform families about appropriate parental attitudes to increase their children’s life satisfaction.

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 497
Author(s):  
Teodora Slavinski ◽  
Dragan Bjelica ◽  
Dejana Pavlović ◽  
Valentina Vukmirović

Life satisfaction influences sustainable personal growth among students by ensuring that they more firmly apply themselves in their education. Universities represent an environment where students may improve their life satisfaction through better academic performance and being engaged in extracurricular sport. This study evaluates life satisfaction (LS) among university students, 18 to 28 years of age to confirm whether academic performance, involvement in sports and physical activity are factors relating to higher levels of LS among university students. The study uses the Brief Multidimensional Life Satisfaction Scale. Over a three-year timeframe, a questionnaire was administered to a sample of 875 students across areas of study in institutions of higher education in Serbia. The data were analyzed using Mann–Whitney and Kruskal–Wallis tests. LS among students is found to be significantly improved under the following conditions: removing the burden to pay for one’s tuition, having a better Grade Point Average (GPA) as well as being involved in sport. Moreover, the optimum level of physical activity to positively affect LS is found to be four to five hours a week.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 712-719
Author(s):  
Ayşe Eliüşük Bülbül ◽  

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of the "patience training program" on the patience and life satisfaction levels of university students. The study was organized as a pre-test, post-test experiment and control group design. For a total of 30 students from which were 17 in the control group and 17 in the experimental group, patience training was given for 5 weeks. The "Patient Scale" developed by Schnitker (2010) and adapted to Turkish by Eliüşük and Arslan (2016) and the "Life Satisfaction Scale" developed by Diener, Emmons, Larsen and Griffin (1985) and adapted to Turkish by Dağlı and Baysal (2016) were used as a data collection tool in the study. The "Wilcoxon" test was used for the comparison of in-group differences in the analysis of obtained data and the "Mann-Whitney U" test was used in examining the differences between the two groups. As a result of the study, it was observed that the patience and life satisfaction average scores of students in the experimental group receiving "patience training" increased significantly, while there was no significant difference in the patience and life satisfaction averages scores of the control group students.


Author(s):  
Najeh Mohammad Zawahreh Najeh Mohammad Zawahreh

This study aimed to identifying the degree of life satisfaction, the level of self-esteem and the relationship between them among students of Najran University in KSA the study sample consisted of (639) students, of whom (319) were male and (320) female students. The researcher use previous literature to building two measures, the life satisfaction scale and the self-esteem scale. Validity and reliability of both tools were concluded. the results revealed that the degree of life satisfaction among Najran University students was high, and their level of self-esteem was high, and the results showed a strong, positive and significant correlation between the degree of satisfaction with Life and the level of self-esteem, and indicated that there were no differences in life satisfaction and self-esteem among Najran University students due to the gender variable, or type of college variable.The study recommended measuring students' life satisfaction and self-esteem periodically.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 406-417
Author(s):  
Shahnaz Perveen ◽  
Hamid Ikram ◽  
Qamar Un Nisa

Abstract Purpose of the study: This research study explores the relationship between life satisfaction, self-esteem, and academic performance of university students. Methodology: A quantitative approach was used to explore the relationship among life satisfaction, self-esteem, and academic performance of university students. In this study, a survey method was employed to collect quantitative data on life satisfaction, self-esteem, and academic performance from 575 students studying in three different public universities of Punjab (Pakistan). A self-esteem scale as a survey instrument initially developed by Rosenberg (1965) and a life satisfaction scale developed by Gilligan and Huebner (2002) were used to collect data. A third scale was developed by the researchers to measure the students’ academic performance. The assembled data were statistically examined using descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation by using SPSS 20th Version. Results: Findings of the study reveal that the level of life satisfaction among university students is comparatively higher than the presence of self-esteem and academic performance. Findings of the study show significant positive associations of university students’ academic performance with their life satisfaction and self-esteem. Applications of this study: This study helps strengthen the factors that promote university students’ academic performance. Novelty/Originality of this study: The novelty of this study is to explore the relationship among life satisfaction, self-esteem, and academic performance of university students for strengthening different dimensions of life satisfaction and self-esteem which ultimately promote university students’ academic performance.


Author(s):  
Serpil Aytac ◽  
Nazan Bilgel

This study is about the types of multiple intelligences and attachment styles among a group of Turkish university students. Participants were 450 students from one public university in Turkey. A demographic and socio-economic questionnaire, Multiple Intelligence Survey, Revised Adult Attachment Scale, Satisfaction with Life Scale and The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire -short version were used as study instruments. Of the 450 students, 63.8% were female and the mean age was 21.24±2.14 years. Bodily intelligence was reported more frequently by male students whereas intrapersonal and logical intelligences were reported at higher rates in female students. Attachment related avoidance was reported by 58.7% of the students. Male students reported more attachment related anxiety, and female students reported more attachment related avoidance. No significant correlations were determined between attachment style and economic status, age, class-year and Grade Point Average of the students. The relationship between students’ intelligence and attachment style was also insignificant. No significant relationship was determined between the happiness and life satisfaction scores of students with different types of intelligences. Female students were found to be significantly happier and satisfied with their lives than male students. Students with a poor economic status had the lowest happiness and life satisfaction scores and the difference was statistically significant. These findings are important to provide a more complete picture about the difficulties experienced by young adults when socially or emotionally adapting to university life. There is much to say regarding the impact of “multiple intelligences”, “attachment styles” and the “subjective well-being” of university students.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Fareeda Shaheen

Purpose of the present investigation was to study the role of parental attitude in development of aggressive behavior among adolescents. The sample comprised of 200 (100 male and 100 female) undergraduate students of Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh. Parent-Child Relation Questionnaire (PCRQ) (Singh, 1984) was used for measuring parental attitude and Aggression Questionnaire (Buss & Perry, 1992) was used for measuring adolescents aggression. Pearson Product-Moment Correlation and t-test were used for analyzing the data. Result revealed that there was significant negative correlation between positive parental attitude and aggression. It was also found that there was significant positive correlation between negative parental attitude and aggression. When gender differences was conducted on same sample, it was found that in father‟s attitude, female students scored significantly higher on only one positive dimension of father‟s attitude i.e. disciplining out of three positive dimensions (i.e. loving, protecting and disciplining) in comparison to male students, while male students scored significantly higher on only one negative dimension of father‟s attitude i.e. punishing out of three negative dimensions (i.e. dominating, rejecting, and punishing) in comparison to female students. Similarly, in mother‟s attitude, the results revealed that female students also scored significantly higher on two positive dimension of mother‟s attitude (i.e. loving and disciplining) out of three positive dimensions in comparison to male students. The results also showed that male students scored significantly higher on all three negative dimension of mother‟s attitude in comparison to female students. Further it was found that male students scored significantly higher on all four dimensions of aggression (i.e. physical, verbal, anger and hostility) in comparison to female students.


Psychology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
pp. 169-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Engin Deniz ◽  
Ozlem Karakuş ◽  
Zeliha Traş ◽  
Jale Eldeleklioğlu ◽  
Zümra Ozyeşil ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 2035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fikret Soyer ◽  
Nuh Osman Yıldız ◽  
Duygu Harmandar Demirel ◽  
Emrah Serdar ◽  
Mehmet Demirel ◽  
...  

The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between the factors that prevent university students from attending to the recreational activities and the life satisfaction of the participants with the demographic variance. In accordance with this purpose, totally 263 students that are 140 (53.2%) “women” and 123 (46.8%) “men” who have been chosen with random sampling method attended to the study voluntarily.In this investigation, “Free Time Obstacles” ,which has been developed by Gürbüz and Karaküçük to determine the factors that might obstruct the attendance of the participants to the recreational activities and evaluates the factors that might prevent the university students from attending to recreational activities, was used. LSS (Life Satisfaction Scale) ,which has been created by Diener and his colleagues (1985) and adapted to Turkish by Yetim(1993), was used to evaluate the life satisfaction of the participants.Percentage (%) and frequency (f) methods were used to determine the distributions personal information of the participants; Shapiro Wilks normality test was used to determine whether data have normal distribution or not and as a result of these, after it is understood that the data are appropriate to the conditions of non-parametric test; Mann- Whitney U and Kruskall Wallis tests were used to determine the significant differences; and Spearman Correlation Test was carried out to determine the relationship between Free Time Obstacles Scale and Life Satisfaction Scale.As a result; it is observed that there is no significant relationship between Free Time Obstacles Scale and Life Satisfaction Scale; there is no significant difference between Life Satisfaction and gender variance considering gender variance; according to the Free Time Obstacles, there is only significant difference at the time sub-dimension; according to the doing sport, there is only significant difference at the Lack of Interest among the Free Time Obstacles; according to the Life Satisfaction, there is significant difference because of the people that don’t participate to the sportive activities. While according to the wealth level, a significant difference was determined at Life Satisfaction level, it is was determined that there is no significant difference at Free Time Obstacles and wealth level. Also, it is determined that there is a significant difference between Life Satisfaction and having difficulty in taking advantage of free time; there is a significant difference between having difficulty in taking advantage of free time and Free Time Obstacles at facility-service and time sub-dimension.Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetÇalışmanın amacı üniversite öğrencilerin rekreatif etkinliklere katılımlarına engel teşkil eden faktörler ile katılımcıların yaşam doyumları arasındaki ilişkinin demografik değişkenler ile birlikte incelenmesidir. Bu amaç doğrultusunda tesadüfi örnekleme yöntemiyle seçilmiş olan 140 (%53.2) “Kadın” ve 123 (%46.8) “Erkek” toplam 263 üniversite öğrencisi çalışmaya gönüllü olarak katılmıştır.Araştırmada, katılımcıların rekreasyonel faaliyetlere katılımlarına engel teşkil edebilecek faktörlerin belirlenmesi için Gürbüz ve Karaküçük tarafından geliştirilen üniversite öğrencilerinin rekreasyonel etkinliklerine katılmalarına engel teşkil edebilecek unsurları değerlendiren “Boş Zaman Engelleri” kullanılmıştır. Katılımcıların yaşam doyumlarını ölçmek amacıyla ise Diener ve arkadaşları (1985) tarafından geliştirilen ve Yetim (1993) tarafından Türkçe’ye uyarlanan YDÖ (Yaşam Doyumu Ölçeği) kullanılmıştır.Katılımcıların kişisel bilgilerinin dağılımlarının belirlenmesi için yüzde (%) ve frekans (f) yöntemleri; verilerin normal bir dağılıma sahip olup olmadığının belirlenmesi için Shapiro Wilks normallik testi uygulanmış ve bunun neticesinde verilerin non parametrik test koşullarına uygun olduğunun anlaşılmasından sonra anlamlı farklılıkların belirlenmesi için Mann-Whitney U ve Kruskall Wallis testleri, Boş Zaman Engelleri Ölçeği ile Yaşam Doyumu Ölçeği arasındaki ilişkinin belirlenmesi için ise Spearman Korelasyon testi uygulanmıştır.Sonuç olarak; boş zaman engelleri ile yaşam doyumu arasında, cinsiyet değişkeni açısından bakıldığında yaşam doyumu ile cinsiyet değişkeni arasında anlamlı bir farklılık olmadığı tespit edilmiştir. Boş zaman engelleri açısından ise sadece zaman alt boyutunda anlamlı bir farklılık olduğu, spor yapma durumuna göre boş zaman engelleri arasında da sadece ilgi eksikliği boyutunda anlamlı bir farklılık olduğu saptanmış, yaşam doyumuna göre incelendiğinde ise sportif etkinliklere katılmayan kişilerden kaynaklı anlamlı bir farklılığın olduğu ortaya çıkmıştır. Refah düzeyi değişkenine göre incelendiğinde yaşam doyumu düzeyinde anlamlı bir farklılık saptanmasına karşın boş zaman engelleri açısından refah düzeyinde ise anlamlı bir farklılık olmadığı tespit edilmiştir. Ayrıca yaşam doyumu ile boş zamanları değerlendirme güçlüğü çekmek arasında anlamlı bir farklılık olduğu, boş zaman değerlendirme güçlüğü çekmek ile boş zaman engelleri arasında ise tesis-hizmet ve zaman alt boyutlarında anlamlı bir farklılık olduğu tespit edilmiştir.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Alamgir Hossain ◽  
Lisa Paul ◽  
Md. Towhidul Islam

The aim of the research was to determine the effect of life satisfaction on suicidal ideation for both male and female undergraduate students. Data were collected from 120 students (60 male and 60 female) who were purposively chosen from University of Chittagong of Bangladesh. To measure the constructs, Bangla version of life satisfaction and suicidal ideation scales were used in the present study. Results revealed that there were no significant gender differences in life satisfaction and suicidal ideation. But the participants who had bitter experiences in romantic relationship significantly scored higher on suicidal ideation than who had not (t = 2.76, p < .01). There was found a significant negative correlation coefficient between life satisfaction and suicidal ideation (r = -.316, p < .01). A simple regression analysis confirmed that life satisfaction was a strong predictor (β = -.466, p < .001) and explained 21% variation of suicidal ideation for female students. Whereas life satisfaction did not significantly predict suicidal ideation of male students (β = -1.66, p > .05).


2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Salvador-Ferrer

<p>The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between gratitude and life satisfaction among university students in Spain. The present study seeks to assess gratitude by means of a self-report Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-6; McCullough et al., 2002) and Life satisfaction scale (SWLS; Diener et al., 1985). Using a multiple linear regression analysis, the relationship between life satisfaction and gratitude is analyzed. The results suggest that gratitude significantly predicts life satisfaction, while on the other hand, differences exist with regard to gender in the relationship between gratitude and life satisfaction. The significance and limitations of the present findings are discussed.</p>


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