Abstract
Loneliness is usually defined as an unpleasant and emotionally disturbing subjective experience that occurs as response to the discrepancy between desired and achieved levels of social contact. The experience of loneliness is unpleasant and painful experience, followed by feelings of rejection from the people that we care, with simultaneous desire that they accept us and to be part of their lives. 
 The sense of global life satisfaction stems from cumulative successes in a variety of specific situations. The measure of overall satisfaction with one's life reflects in addition to the successes experienced, the average level of mood of the person, that is, his emotional state over a long period or even throughout an individual's life. As such, overall life satisfaction is an indicator of quality of life and emotional adjustment. 
 The main aim of this study was to examine the relationship between the life satisfaction with loneliness. 
 The study was conducted on a sample of 200 students (82 males and 118 females) of various departments of the final year of Social Sciences and Technical Sciences at the University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 The study applied the following instruments: The scale of general life satisfaction; The short version of UCLA loneliness scale. 
 The results showed a negative relationship of loneliness with life satisfaction among students (r=-.515, p
Highlights
Examining life satisfaction at any age is a new concept in psychology and until a few decades back it did not attract the interest of psychologists
Research hypotheses H1 Research to date has shown that life satisfaction is significantly correlated with various constructs and loneliness
In order to access data processing, it was necessary to check that the results on the scale of life satisfaction and loneliness were distributed according to the principles of normal distribution
Summary
Personal happiness and quality of life are different components of what is called subjective well-being. Life satisfaction is a complete perception and evaluation of one's life and is most often described as a cognitive component of subjective well-being, while on the other hand, feeling happy is an emotional component and is described as a frequent feeling of positive emotions (Diener; according to Petrov et al, 2011). Life satisfaction according to Penezić (1999; according to Brajković, 2010) is related to a person's mental health It refers to the overall assessment of a person's life or to a comparison that reflects a perceived discrepancy between a person's aspirations and achievements. By developing the socalled positive psychology, there is an increasing interest among psychologists in examining the factors that contribute to quality of life as well as life satisfaction
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