Abstract:

In this research, the relationship between undergraduates' monthly income and expenditure level and their psychological well-being was examined. The research was conducted on 204 undergraduates including 116(%57) females, 88(%43) males who were studying on different departments of Bingol University during the 2011-2012 spring semester. Participants were studying at the Faculty of Agriculture, Arts and Sciences Faculty, Theology Faculty of Bingol University. 91 of the participants were juniors, 79 of them were sophomores and 34 of them were third degrees. The students were selected randomly. To scale psychological well-being which was one of the variants, 84-item "Psychological well-being scale" developed by Ryff(1989) was applied on the undergraduates. "Socio-economic status scale" developed by Bacanlı(1997) was also applied on the participants. Dates obtained from scales were up loaded to a computer by coding. SPSS Statistics 20.00 Programme was used to analyze the dates. Descriptive statistics, F Test, one-way Anova and LSD Multiple Comparison Test were used to examine the dates

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