In fact, it is difficult to put in exact words, our life constitutes all events of our existence that relates us with social, physical, psychological, economic and other dimensions of the environment. It includes our plans, expectations, expectancies, activities, achievements and responses they bear. Life satisfaction (LS) is a cognitive evaluation of one's life as a whole and/or of specific life domains. It is an important aspect of subjective well-being (SWB) and it leads to positive and healthy life style in youth. Subjective well-being a field in behavioral sciences in which people’s evaluations of their lives is studied. As a component of SWB, LS has been linked to a wide range of physical, mental, academic, emotional and social indicators of functioning particularly in adolescents. It serves as protective factor, for adolescents who experience stressful events, from developing additional externalizing behavior problems. Evidences show life satisfaction to be extremely important for college students. And, many studies have shown low level life satisfaction associates with different risky behaviors. Risky behaviors are behaviors for which there are unknown/unexpected consequences and the potential for those consequences to have negative health outcomes. More directly risky behaviors to which LS is associated include; alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, violent and sexual risk-taking behaviors. As far as risky behaviors are concerned, many studies report it is increasing threat particularly in adolescence. This is the age when many struggle to attain independence and self reliance in different life phenomena, for example, joining higher learning institutions. Risky behaviors include use of substances like alcohol, khat leaves and tobacco. It has become one of the rising major public health and socio-economic problem worldwide. Recent trend indicates that the use of substances is dramatically increasing particularly in developing countries.

The other wing of risky behaviors that make the youth vulnerable is sexual behavior related. Risky sexual behavior is defined as engaging in sexual encounters at an early age, no or inconsistent condom use and having multiple sexual partners. Its prevalence is even higher among college students compared to out of college young adults. A study among students in Kenya University shows 71% males and 47.6% females reported having had sexual intercourse. From those sexually active students only 18% male and 14% females reported using condom every time they had sex. A study conducted among students of Gondar town, Northern Ethiopia, depicted that 43.3% of sexually active ones had more than one sexual partner and about 39% had unprotected sex (without condom). In turn, these risky sexual behaviors are extremely detrimental to health putting them at high risk to HIV/AIDS and other Sexual transmitted diseases (STDs).

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