The relationship between Salit al Raham, loneliness, psychological well-being and life satisfaction

This research aims to examine the differences, effects and relationships between the variables of Salit al Raham, loneliness, psychological well-being, and life satisfaction. The research consists of five parts: introduction, theoretical framework, method and application, research findings and comments, conclusions and recommendations. The population of the research includes individuals over the age of 18 with different demographic characteristics in Turkey in general terms, and 1,182 participants with different demographic characteristics from 10 provinces in the narrow sense, determined by convenience sampling method. Seven personal information forms developed by the researcher, seven Salit al Raham research questions developed by the researcher, UCLA loneliness, psychological well-being and life satisfaction scales were used as data collection tools in the research. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program was used in the analysis of the data. In the analysis of the findings, t-test, chi-square and ANOVA were used. In the study of Salit al Raham it was determined that the participants care about the family, they visit their relatives periodically, they are interested in each other, and they prefer face-to-face communication. It has been seen that the most determining factor in the reasons for Salit al Raham is the preference for religious belief. It has been concluded that physical separations, family troubles, not being able to establish common ground with the relatives, financial impossibilities, work load density, media and informatics world negatively affected Salit al Raham. While determining a significant relationship between the religious belief requirement in the reasons for Salit al Raham and the variables of age, gender, marital status, education level, place of residence and profession. However, no significant relationship was found considering the economic situation. A significant relationship was determined between the need for religious belief in the reasons for Salit al Raham and the variables of loneliness, psychological well-being and life satisfaction. With its different dimensions, it has been observed that while the family unit reduces the loneliness level of the participants, it also increases the levels of psychological well-being and life satisfaction. As a result of the research, there was a negative relationship between Salit al Raham and loneliness, and a positive relationship between psychological well-being and life satisfaction.