The mediating role of psychological symptoms on relation between seasonality and subjective well – being

In this study, differences in seasonality, subjective well-being and psychological symtoms of university students relation between seasonality and subjective well-being and mediator role of psychological symtoms in this relation we examined. The population of this study consists of university students who study in Psychology, Psychological Counseling, and Guidance and Mental Disabilities and Special Education Teacher in Abant Izzet Baysal University. The sample of the study consisted of 168 girls and 59 boys is 227 students totally.In this study, seasonality of university students was measured by the Seasonal Pattern Questionary (SPAQ) which was developed by Rosenthal et. al. (1987) and adapted to Turkish by Noyan et. al. (2000), subjective well-being was measured by the Subjective Well-Being Scale which was developed by Dost (2004) and psyhological symtomps were measured by Brief Symptom Inventory which was developed by Derogatis (1992) and adapted to Turkish by Şahin and Durak (1994). For the analysis of the data t test, one way ANOVA, regression analysis and mediator analysis were used. The source of the differences was tested by a means of Tukey HSD test for the groups with homogenous variances. Determination the relation between seasonality, subjective well-being and psychological symptoms were calculated by Pearson Correlation Coefficient. The findings were evaluated at .05 significant levels. The findings of the sudy can be summarized; there was not significant difference between male and female in seasonality and subjective well-being level of university students according to gender, but there was a significant difference in anxiety and hostility level of university students based on gender. In addition, psychological symptoms played mediator role on relation between seasonality and subjective well-being. In the future studies, it will be interesting to examine this relation and mediator role of psychological smyptoms with physiological variables . Key words: Seasonality, Subjective Well-Being, Psychological Symptom.