The Role of Feeling Appreciated in Life Satisfaction

"Appreciation" is important from the perspective of religion, ethics, and psychology. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between spirituality and appreciation of personality, and its role in life satisfaction. 105 students from Tehran University and Institute of Imam Khomeini responded to the following questionnaires: "Self-evaluation Scale of Spirituality ", "appreciation questionnaire", appreciating the scale "," short scale five big factors of personality "and" life satisfaction scale". Data were analyzed by indicators and statistical methods including mean, standard deviation, Pearson correlation, variance analyze and regression. Analysis showed the strongest correlation between the appreciation and spirituality and personality factor. Appreciation correlates with all aspects of the personality. This relationship gave a different model, so that appreciation was most relevant with related aspects of social welfare and social performance as agreement. Appreciation was correlated with life satisfaction and by controlling the personality traits also 6 percent of the variance in life satisfaction can be predicted. Study findings showed religious- ethics foundation of appreciation and its place among personality factors. This research supports the view that the appreciation associated with the Welfare.