The effects of economical, cultural, and social capitals on Turkish Unıversity students’ well-being and academic achievement.

The economical, cultural, and social capital resources of emerging adults and theirpredictor role in emerging adults’ life-satisfaction and academic achievement wereinvestigated in a sample of 995 Turkish University students. Regression analysesrevealed that no economical capital factors had significant effect but cultural and socialfactors like accommodation facilities, satisfaction with the department, satisfaction withthe city where he/she lives in, possibility to find a job, feeling secure in the country, andfamily trust had a significant role on participants’ life satisfaction scores. The findingsrelated to academic achievement showed that for both females and males thesatisfaction for the department was positively, and individual expense was negativelyrelated to emerging adults’ academic achievements. Besides, social capital factors(family and lecturer trust) were important only for males’ academic achievement scores.Results of MANOVA also exposed that university students who lived with their parentshad higher life satisfaction scores. Likewise, students who lived in separate flats hadlower academic achievements than others lived with their parents or staying indormitories. Interaction effects of the three independent variables on emerging adults’well-being and academic achievement were also discussed.

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