Mental Well-being and Life Satisfaction as the Outcomes of Life Orientation and Resilience among University Students

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate into how life orientation and  resilience affect university students' sense of life satisfaction and mental health. It was hypothesized that the correlation between life orientation, resilience, mental health, and life satisfaction would be statistically significant. It was also hypothesized that resilience and life orientation would be significant predictors of life satisfaction and mental-wellbeing, and mental well-being and life satisfaction would have significant differences in terms of gender. The study's sample (N=300) was drawn from university students. Purposive sampling was employed to choose all participants, with age ranging from 18 to 29 years. The Life Orientation Scale (1994) developed by Scheier, the Resilience Scale (NMRQ) developed by McBride (2020), the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (2006), and the Life Satisfaction Scale (SWLS) developed by Deiner (1985) were used to assess university the study variables. The current study showed that life satisfaction, resilience, life orientation, and mental well-being are all significantly positively correlated. The results also revealed that resilience and life orientation strongly predict the mental health of university students. Life orientation was found to be a significant predictor of university students' life satisfaction. Male university students scored higher than female university students in terms of mental health and life satisfaction.