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Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between life satisfaction and psychological stability of Kocaeli University students. Method: The sample of the study consisted of 913 students (437 females and 476 males) studying at the Faculty of Communication, Faculty of Education and Faculty of Sport Sciences at Kocaeli University. For the purpose of obtaining data in the study, "Ego-Resilience Scale" which was developed by Block and Kremen (1996) and adapted to Turkish by Karaırmak (2007) and "The Satisfaction With Life Scale" which was developed by Diener, Emmons, Laresen and Griffin (1985 ) and adapted to Turkish by Köker (1991) were used. In the analysis of the data, frequency analysis was used to examine the participants' personal information distributions, skewness-kurtosis values were examined to determine whether the data showed normal distribution, Manova, Tukey and Post-Hoc tests were used to determine the differences between the variables, correlation analysis was used to establish relations and regression analysis to determine the effects. Findings: According to these analyzes; It was found that there were a high positive correlation between life satisfaction and ego-resilience scales of Faculty of Communication, Education and Sport Sciences students (p <0,05). It was determined that female students' ego-resilience levels were significantly higher than male students (p <0.05). There was no significant difference according to the gender variable of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (p> 0.05). Significant differences were found between the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Communication regarding the satisfaction with life scale (p <0.05). On the other hand, a significant difference was found between the Faculty of Sport Sciences - Faculty of Communication and the Faculty of Education - the Faculty of Communication (p <0.05). When the Satisfaction with Life Scale was examined according to the sportive activities, a significant difference was found between recreational and amateur, recreational and professional athletes. When the ego-resilience scale was examined, a significant difference was found between recreational and amateur, recreational and professional, amateur and professional athletes (p <0.05). Conclusion: It can be said that the Faculty of Sport Sciences, Education and Communication students who have high life satisfaction levels also have high ego-resilience levels. Keywords: University, students, ego-resilience, life satisfaction

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