The Role of Family Health and Psychological Well-being in the Prediction of the Students' Quality of Life

This study is conducted in order to evaluate the role of family health and psychological well-being in the prediction of the students' quality of life. This study is conducted with the cross-sectional method and correlational design on the community of Guilan University students in the academic years of 2016-17. A sample of 200 students has been selected by using the multi-stage cluster sampling method. In order to collect the data, the main family scale, the Psychological well-being scale of Ryff and the quality of life questionnaire of World Health Organization have been used. The SPSS-18 software has been used to analyze the data and the results have been reported in the form of descriptive and inferential statistics. The results have shown that the psychological well-being and family health variables with the correlation value of 0.415 and 0.404 have a positive and significant correlation with the quality of life variable at the P<0.01 level of significance. The results of the Stepwise regression analysis to predict the variance of the students' quality of life have indicated that only in one step the psychological well-being variable with (6.245) t coefficient has a high and significant correlation with the quality of life variable.