The relationship between psychological health, happiness and life quality in the students

Introduction: life quality is a factor with complicated combination. therefore, there is no agreement about its definition and the way of measuring it. psychological health of life quality means that how people, on the basis of their own personal standards, think about their life generally and particular domains and how they feel about it. Aim: the purpose of this study is to consider the relationship between psychological health, happiness and life quality in the students. Methods: the method of this study is descriptive-corelational. the statistical population of the study includes all the students of Babol payam-e-noor university who are studying in this university from 2010 to 2011. the sample includes 165 students who were selected by random clustered sampling method. in order to collect data three questionnaires were used: adult psychological health questionnaire(Iranian version), happiness questionnaire(OHI) and life quality questionnaire(WHOQOL-BREF). for data analysis correlation coefficient method and SPSS software were used. Findings: the results show that there is a significant relationship between psychological health, happiness and life quality. the students whose psychological health is higher, are happier and will have higher life quality. Discussion: considering the findings of the study it seems that in order to increase happiness in students which leads to the increase in life quality, various programs should be designed such as increasing sport activities, recreative picnics, going on a pilgrimage and scientific trips, making the atmosphere of the dormitories and universities more joyful and so on.