Creative Education, 2019, 10, 947-961 http://www.scirp.org/journal/ce ISSN Online: 2151-4771 ISSN Print: 2151-4755 DOI: 10.4236/ce.2019.105071 May 21, 2019 947 Creative Education Life Satisfaction, and Anxiety Levels among University Students George Tsitsas 1* , Panagiotis Nanopoulos 2 , Antonia Paschali 3* 1 Counseling Center, Ηarokopio University, Athens, Greece 2 Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece 3 Faculty of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece Abstract University or College years seem to be a stressful time for students due to many challenges: academic, personal adjustment to a new life, and socially building new friendships. Life satisfaction is considered one of the basic components of psychological well-being. Studies have supported that lower levels of life satisfaction have been related to high levels of anxiety. Also the constructs of assertiveness and empathy seem to be related with life satisfac- tion. The present study compares 1 st and 4 th -year undergraduate students in relation to variables such as life satisfaction (The Life Satisfaction Index), stress, (STAI) assertiveness (Rathus Assertiveness Schedule) and empathy (Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI)). The participants were in total 410, 1 st year (N = 205) and 4 th year (N = 205) undergraduate students. All findings are discussed in detail; some main results showed that: 1) Independently of sex students had similar anxiety levels; life satisfaction was significantly high- er among those with low state anxiety but not with low trait anxiety; 2) Trait anxiety score analysis revealed nonsignificant results; 3) Young women are more life satisfied compared to young men among 1 st year students; 4) The percent of students with high life satisfaction is significantly higher among those that grew up in urban and semi-urban regions compared to those that grew up in other regions. The findings of the present study emphasize the need to explore ways to help undergraduate students to adjust during their academic years and life at the University. Keywords University Students, Life Satisfaction, Stress, Assertiveness, Empathy 1. Introduction University years, can be considered as a period of negotiation with new aca- * Contribute equally. How to cite this paper: Tsitsas, G., Nano- poulos, P., & Paschali, A. (2019). Life Satis- faction, and Anxiety Levels among Univer- sity Students. Creative Education, 10, 947-961. https://doi.org/10.4236/ce.2019.105071 Received: February 11, 2019 Accepted: May 18, 2019 Published: May 21, 2019 Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access