The Study On The Relationship Between Life Stress And Life Satisfaction Of College Students

Life stress is the stress which is caused by life or the elements directly having something with life. Life satisfaction is the total realization and evaluation of one's own most part of his time or life condition in certain continued time on the base of individual standard. It is an important parameter to measure people's life quality in some society.The aim of this paper is to investigate the status of life stress and life satisfaction of college students, and the differences in life stress and in life satisfaction of college students from diverse backgrounds, and moreover to analyze the causes of the differences, and the relationship between life stress and life satisfaction. Tow research instruments were employed in this paper: Student-Life Stress Inventory and Life Satisfaction Scales Applicable to College Students. The random samples consisted of 680 college students from seven colleges and universities.The result shows that:1.69.12% of college students are faced with the life stress and life stress reaction that be in the middle level. 15.59% of college students are in the high life stress level; 15.29% of college students are in the low life stress level, the status of life stress of college students are normal distributions.2.The general life satisfaction of college student is higher, but the life satisfaction with the economic conditions is lower.3.There are significant differences in the general life stress and some dimensionality of college students from diverse backgrounds.4.There are significant differences in the general life satisfaction and some dimensionality of college students in gender, place coming from, major, grade, monthly profit of family and whether only child or not.5.The economic conditions are the most important fluence factor in the life stress and life satisfaction of college student.6.The college students'life stress has negatively correlated with their life satisfaction, but the coefficient of correlation of them is lower. The more strength and reaction of life stress,the lower degree of life satisfaction. Some of the factors of life stress can explain 10.5% of measures of variability of life satisfaction. The life stress can predict their life satisfaction,but the predicting ability is minor.