A meta-analysis of researches on relationship between resilience and life satisfaction

Life satisfaction is one of the important components of well-being, that its low levels among people have many negative consequences. A lot of research has been done on the factors affecting life satisfaction, which one of this factors is resilience. In this direction, the purpose of this study was to collect and integrate the results of the relationship between resilience and life satisfaction and calculate their effectsize by using the meta-analysis model. In order to answer the meta-analysis question, from among all research on the relationship between resilience and life satisfaction in carried outthroughout Iran, 11 research studies which were acceptable in terms of methodology and ex-hibited inclusivecriteria, were sele-cted for the meta –analysis. The period of studies has been from 2006 to 2019.The combination of effect size by Schmitt and Hunts method shows that the average effect size of the relationship between resilience and life satisfaction in Iran is for a fixed effect model 0/411 and for random effect model 0/422, that both of which are significant at level of 0/000. Therefore, the average effect size of current study is 0/422 and this amount is moderate according to the Cohen criterion.