The relationship between psychological well-beinglevel, self-forgiveness level and mother acceptance-rejection of university students

This research is a descriptive study that aims to investigate whether the psychological well being of university student preticted by self forgiveness, perceived parental acceptance-rejection level during their childhood period, perceived academic success and demographic variables.The sample of this study was composed of 347 (185 female, 162 male) university students attending five different faculty programs at Gazi University. ?Heartland Forgiveness Scale?, ?Demographic Information Form?, ?Scales of Psychological Well Being? and ? Acceptance-Rejection Inventory? were used in data collection.The assessment instrument used were: ?Scales of Psychological Well-Being?, ?Heartland Forgiveness Scale?, ?Parental Acceptance-Rejection Inventory?, and Demographic Information Form. In the analysis of data used in the study, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis, Independent Samples t-Test, One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Kruskall Wallis and Mann Whitney U Analysis were performed.As for the results of the stepwise regression analyses, it was found that, in accordance with their contributions to the total variance, the variables of self forgiveness, perceived mother acceptance-rejection level, perceived academic success, program and faculty variables were significant predictors of psychological well-being. It was reported that these variables explained 65 % of total variance. However, the results of the analyses revealed that gender and class variables do not have any significant effect. The findings were discussed according to the literature.