The effect of life satisfaction and assessment of benefit on attitude to money among college students

Document Type : Research Paper

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Department of social sciences, Islamic Azad University, Branch of Quchan, Quchan, Iran

Abstract

Introduction: Attitude is one of the important and effective aspects of life. The effect of attitude to objects, individuals and events is an undeniable fact in forming behavior, motivation and supply of needs. This research aimed to assess the relationship between life satisfaction and benefit of attitude to money among students of Islamic Azad University, Branch of Quchan. 
Materials and Methods: The statistical community of this descriptive-correlational study concluded all students of Islamic Azad University, Branch of Quchan in 2016-17. Amongst them 363 cases selected via Morgan table as subjects through classified randomized sampling method among different departments. Data collected via researcher-made questionnaire and its validity approved by formal validity and Cronbach alpha. Data were analyzed using descriptive, correlative coefficient and multi-regression.
Results: The results showed that 59% of students have great expect about benefit of money, 28.5% have medium and 12.5% have low expect about benefit of money. Also the results showed that the levels of life satisfaction are great and very great in 58% of cases, 29% have medium level and 13% have low level of life satisfaction. In addition the results of correlative coefficient showed that expect of benefit and life satisfaction have most direct relationship with attitude to money while age and income have most indirect relationship with attitude to money.
 Conclusion: Based on the results, expect of benefit of money and life satisfaction have most direct and significant relationships with the attitude to money.  

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