This study aims to predict the correlation between life satisfaction and self-efficacy and social support. The sample consists of 150 female teachers of high school in Qom who were selected by multisectional random sampling. All participants were studied by three tests of Diner life satisfaction, sharer selfefficacy, and Philips social support. The findings showed that there is a significant correlation between life satisfaction, self-efficacy, and social support. The correlation coefficients are respectively 0.361 and 0.469 (p<0.05). The results also indicate that life satisfaction can be predicted by subscales of social support, social support by family, friends, and others.
Keywords: life satisfaction, self-efficacy, social support
STATEMENT OF PROBLEMHappy experience and life satisfaction are the ultimate goal of people's purpose. Therefore, all people are trying to achieve it during their life (Haebner, 2000).Life satisfaction is one of the oldest and stable isuues in studies related to adults that is considered as general study of the current situation by comparing the person's willings to real access it (Bechtold, 2004).Ingelehart defines the concept of satisfaction as: life satisfaction reflects the balance between the personal wishes and his current condition. In other word, whatever the gap between the person's wishes and his current condition id high, his satisfaction would be reduced (Ingelhart, 1994 cited in Zaki, 2007.However life satisfaction depends on personal conditions, the social factors are so effective in increasing and reducing it. The society creates the conditions that can direct the people to achieve the personal wishes and goals, in other hand, it creates a space that the person can interact and communicate with those who provides peace, security, and confidence for an appropriate life. The general life satisfaction is composed of the personal and social conditions and in fact, it is a sign of positive attitudes toward the world and the environment where he lives in.
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