The relationship between Schwartz individual values and psychological well being: Example of Samandağ

Life, containing pleasantness, contains challenges in it, either. Some difficulties lived by individuals when struggling to survive may cause an increase in their stress and anxiety level. Finally, because of the lived intensive stress, the individuals fall tired physically and mentally, moreover, may get ill. When today's hustle and bustle taken into consider, the importance of improving the skills about solving daily problems and communicating, to handle with stress gets higher and higher. That the skills wanted to be improved step by step expected to not only make people healthier but also contribute to develop healthier evolution both individual and social. That's why; the attention on the level of individuals well being is increasing more and more. The aim of this investigation is to examine the relation on the people, living in the year 2017-2018 in Samandağ / Hatay city center, between Scwartz Individual's Values System and Psychological Well Being Levels. This survey was carried out on individuals living in the year 2017-2018 in Hatay/Samandağ with 319 female and 213 male, in total 532 participants. Three different data collection arguments were used in this study. To understand individual's values system, Schwartz Values Survey, and to understand individual's well-being levels, Psychological Well-Being Scale and for the last step, to get information about individual's demographic features; personal information form, to collected data analyzing were used SPSS 22,0 . Following the analyzed, there is a low level of relationship between individual's values system and their well-being levels, regardless of participant's values type. In addition, the points of Psychological well-being differs according to age and level of income, whereas, there is no valuable relationship between individual's other demographic features and well-being levels.