Predicting Life Satisfaction: Self-Efficacy and Cynical Attitudes

This study aimed to investigate the effect of self-efficacy and cynical attitudes on lifesatisfaction. Participants, including 330 college students of whom 66.97% were womenin the 18-36 age range (M = 21.20, SD = 1.91), from different academic departments andclass levels of a state university in Middle Anatolia, completed the Self-Efficacy Scale,the Cynical Attitudes Towards University Scale, the Life Satisfaction Scale and the personal information form. In data analysis, correlation and regression analysis were utilized.The correlation analysis indicated significant relations between self-efficacy, cynical attitudes towards university, and life satisfaction. Self-efficacy and cynical attitudes towardsuniversity explained 17% of the variance in life satisfaction. The results were discussed inthe light of information obtained from related literature and some suggestions for furtherstudies were provided.