Abstract:

This study aims to study the psychological well-being and satisfaction of life with the perceptions of social support of foreign nationals studying at the Van Hundred Years University (YYU). The study included 138 foreign students from 14 different countries who studied in the various departments of Van YYU during the 2016-2017 educational year as participants. The data of the study was collected through the Multidimensional Detected Social Support Scale, the Psychological Wellbeing Scale, the Lifetime Scale and the Personal Information Form. Analysis has used t tests for frequency distribution, arithmetic average, independent sampling, and Pearson Moment Relationship Correlation Scorecard techniques. According to the results of the study, the perception of social support, psychological well-being and levels of life satisfaction of foreign students have a positive impact on each other; the social support that women perceive from the family is higher than men. The level of Turkish knowledge has been shown to have a higher impact on these students’ perception of social support, psychological well-being and life satisfaction than those who do not know Turkish well. In Turkey, those who live for 4 years or more have a higher perception of social support than those who live less. When the results are assessed as a whole, it can be said that having a real or perceived social support is effective in increasing psychological well-being and life satisfaction and also has a protective function in terms of the state of psychological well-being. The findings obtained were discussed in the light of the relevant area.

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