Life Satisfaction and Hope its Relationship with the University Students

Abstract

Targeted current research to know the degree of satisfaction with life, and hope among the students of the Faculty of Arts, University of Qadisiyah, and the relationship between life satisfaction and hope, and to achieve the objectives of the research the researchers to adopt a measure (ElDesoki 0.1998) for the satisfaction of life, while the researchers built a measure of hope depending on theory (Seligman, 1991), may provide a standard search psychometric properties of validity and reliability and the ability to distinguish, where the two instruments were applied on a sample of 200 students for the academic year 2013-2014, were chosen random-style class with equal distribution. After the use of appropriate statistical methods showed the following results:

1. That students enjoy a high degree of satisfaction with life.
2. That students enjoy a high degree of hope.
3. There is a positive correlation between life satisfaction and hope.

       In light of these results the researchers gave some recommendations also suggested a number of future studies.