Investigation On Life Satisfaction Of University Students And Its Association With Personality In A Medical University

Objective:To know the situation of life satisfaction of university students and its association with personality,we performed this research for providing the basis so as to improve life satisfaction level of students and right the personality.Methods: Cluster sampling method was used to select college students from a university,questionnaire consist of general characteristics,life satisfaction scale and the big five intoventory.Descriptive statistical methods was conducted to describe the college students’ life satisfaction status,analysis of variance was performed to compare score of life satisfaction among different demographic features,and the correlation between score of life satisfaction and big five inventory also was analyzed.Results: A total of 3116 subjects was included in this survey.life satisfaction score was compared among different majors,results revealed that majoring in medical laboratory scored highest in family and life domain of life satisfaction,majoring in law,anaesthesiology,and prevent medicine score lowest in friends,life,self dimension,and general life satisfaction;majoring in stomatologica scored lowest in school dimension of life satisfaction;Comparison life satisfaction score between male and female students found that score of life satisfaction in the family,friends and school dimensions and overall satisfaction score for female was higher than those of male(P<0.05),life satisfaction score of male students in self dimension was higher than that of female(P<0.05);life satisfaction score in the family,friends,dimension among different age was statistically significant difference(P<0.05);life satisfaction score among different body type showed that no statistical significance differences was found in family,friends, school dimension and general life satisfaction but for dimensions of life;No-smoking college students had higher life satisfaction score in the family and school dimension and overall life satisfaction score than that of smokers college students(P<0.05);Non-drinking college students had higher life satisfaction score in the family,friends,school,life dimension than drinking college students(P<0.05);college students get plenty of sleep a day(more than 8 hours)scored higher life satisfaction score in self dimension than that of sleep-deprived college students(P<0.05);In addition to the family dimension,students taking long physical exercise time every day had higher life satisfaction score in every dimension than that of students with lacking physical exercise(P<0.05).the mean score of personality in agreeableness and openness dimension is highest,significance difference was found for mean score of personality in each dimension except for extraversion dimension(P<0.05).Correlation analysis showed that score of personality score in each dimensions was positively correlated with life satisfaction score in each dimension except for neuroticism dimension of personality(P<0.05).Conclusion: life satisfaction score was different among different majors,and the reason should be further explored.School and related department should pay attention to students with lower life satisfaction and mental health level.Mealwhile,education should be strengthen for college students and encouraged to give up smoking,drinking alcohol,doing physical exercise.Health education should cultivate the personality of college students.