Perceived Control, Self-Esteem, and Life Orientation and Their Impact on Positive Affect and Life Satisfaction as Mediating Variables and Self-Mastery as a Dependent Variable

This research aims at investigating the modeling relationships between perceived control, self-esteem, life orientation, positive affect and life satisfaction, and self-mastery. Six scales: Perceived Control of Internal States, Self- esteem, The Revised Life Orientation Test, Positive and Negative Affect , The Satisfaction with Life, and Self -Mastery were applied to a sample comprised (866) students . Results revealed a positive statistical correlation between life orientation and perceived control, self-esteem, life satisfaction, positive affect, and self-mastery; a positive statistical correlation between self-esteem, and perceived control, life satisfaction, positive affect, and self-mastery; a positive statistical correlation between perceived control and life satisfaction, positive affect and self-mastery and a positive statistical correlation between positive affect and life orientation, self-esteem, perceived control, life satisfaction, and self-mastery. Therefore, there was a positive statistical correlation between the research variables under study and self-control. Besides, results demonstrated that there were no significant differences between male and female students in life orientation and positive affect variables, while there were significant differences between male and female students in self-mastery, self-esteem, and perceived control in favor of male students. Besides, there were significant differences between male and female students in the life satisfaction variable in favor of female students. In addition, there were direct and indirect effects of modeling the relationships between perceived control, self-esteem, and orientation towards life (as independent variables), positive affection and life satisfaction (as intermediate variables), and self-control (as a dependent variable) indicating that the hypothesized model represented the goodness of fit indices.