High school student’s life satisfaction: the role of social Selfefficacy

Introduction: The aim of the current research was to investigatethe relationship between social self-efficacy and life satisfaction byemploying descriptive study.Materials and method: Samples consisted of all male students inall four educational area of high school in Mashhad city. Byemploying multistage random sampling, 408 individuals wereselected. Measurement tools included: life satisfaction (lee, 1969)and social Self-Efficacy Scale (Sherer et al., 1982).Results: The results of stepwise multiple regression andcorrelational analysis, showed that, the relationship between subvariable of Social self-efficacy and life satisfaction was positivelysignificant and meaningful. Stepwise multiple regression analysisshows that Social self-efficacy; Social group participation,Friendliness and intimacy are predictors of student’s lifesatisfaction which explains 0.23 of the total variance.Conclusion: Finally, the higher the life satisfaction means thehigher the social self-efficacy. In other side, the lower the lifesatisfaction the higher the depression and anxiety and consequentlylow social self-efficacy and life satisfaction.