SOCIAL SUPPORT AND LIFE SATISFACTION AS THE PREDICTOR OF CONFLICT

The study aims to find out whether social support directly or indirectly via life satisfactionpredicts conflict or not. The study group consists of 229 (%57) female, 175 (%43) male, 404students who studied at Konya Selçuk University during 2010 spring term. Social support scale,life satisfaction scale and conflict resolution scale were used to collect the data. The findingswere tested by structural equitation model (AMOS 16). Analyses show that social supportpredict % 34 of the conflict via life satisfaction. The study was discussed in the light of thefindings and some suggestions were made.