Predicting the Life Satisfaction Components (Family, Friends, University, Life Environment and Self) based on the Communication Skills in the Students of Islamic Azad University

Student's life satisfaction plays an important role in their other functions. As a result, the present study was conducted with the aim of predicting life satisfaction components based on the communication skills in the students of Islamic Azad University.

The present study was a descriptive from type of correlation. The research population was the students of Islamic Azad University of Tehran city in the academic years of 2019-2020 whit number of 190000 people. The sample size was 384 people who were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. Data were collected by the communication skills test-revised (Queendom, 2004) and student's life satisfaction scale (Huebner, 1991) and analyzed by methods of Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression whit enter model in SPSS-19 software.

The findings showed that the communication skills components included ability to receive and send messages, emotional control, listening skills, insight into the communication process and communication with assertiveness had a positive and significant relationship with all life satisfaction components included family, friends, university, life environment and self in students. Other findings showed that communication skills significantly could predict 43% of family changes, 53% of friends changes, 30% of university changes, 44% of life environment changes and 54% of self changes in students (P<0.001).

The results indicated the predicting of life satisfaction components based on the communication skills. As a result, to improve and enhance students' life satisfaction can be increased their communication skills through workshops