Life satisfaction level of highschool students

The main aim of this study is to survey the life satisfaction level of high school students of year 9-12. In this study, life satisfaction level of high school students has been surveyed in the sample of Gaziantep. Depending on some personal traits and variables of families, significant differences among the students? life satisfaction states has been determined. This study has been conducted on 504 pupils, 274 of them girls and 230 of them are boys, in high schools in the Şehitkâmil district of the city of Gaziantep during the educational year 2012-2013. In this study, to measure the life satisfaction states of 9, 10, 11 and 12 year high school students? the ?Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale? of Huebner has been used and the variables are gender, class, kind, school kind, the number of students in the family, economic state, the education level of the parents have been employed. Through the questionnaire used during the study, the results of frequency values and percentage distributions of the collected data, after being put in the tables, have been commented in the findings section. Frequency values and percentage distributions have been used for descriptive statistics. T-test and one-way Anova have been used to determine the differences between the groups. At the end of the study, it is concluded that students have low life satisfaction in school environments, namely compared to other environments such as family, friends and. It is found out that, except school types, there is no significant difference in the study in which students were studied according to gender, class, school types, number of children in the families, economic conditions, and parents? educational status related with life satisfactions. In the study, it can be seen that there is significant difference between students? tendency towards life satisfaction and school types. According to results of Scheffe test which has been designed to find out the difference between school types, life satisfaction of Anatolian high school students is more positive than that of vocational trade high school. This outcome may suggest that vocational trade high school students feel less happy than other school types especially Anatolian high school. Keywords: Life satisfaction, high school, student, subject well-being