Investigating psychological well being of university students according to lifestyles

The aim of this study is to determine life styles of university students and examine if then lifestyles are effective on psychological well-being.The sample group of this study is composed of 570 students studying at Ataturk University during the 2010-2011 school years. The sample was constituted by using cluster sampling method on target population. In order to determine university students' life styles life-style inventory, which was developed by Kern (1982) and adapted to Turkish by Ozpolat (2011), was used. So as to determine university students' psychological well-being The Scales of Psychological WellBeing, which was developed by Ryff (1989) and adapted to Turkish by Cenkseven (2004), was used. SPSS program was used to analyze the data.