en روانپزشكي Psychiatry پژوهشي Original Research Article <div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Objective</strong>: Subjective wellbeing is a personal experience that points at high levels of positive &lrm;affections and life satisfaction. The relationship between happiness and life goals with subjective wellbeing provides useful insight into the prerequisites of wellbeing. This &lrm;study aimed to determine the role of orientation to happiness and life goals in predicting subjective &lrm;wellbeing.&lrm;&nbsp;<br> <strong>Methods</strong>: Using a cluster sampling method, 285 &lrm;students were selected studying at first- and second-year of education at Tehran University of Medical Sciences &lrm;during 2016-2017. The participants responded to the questionnaires of life satisfaction, positive and &lrm;negative affections, orientation to happiness, and life goals. The obtained data were analyzed using &lrm;canonical correlation model.&lrm;&nbsp;<br> <strong>Results</strong>: Four significant canonical functions were identified. The first function showed that &lrm;the orientation to meaning and engagement was associated with a high level of life satisfaction and &lrm;wellbeing. The second function revealed that the orientation to pleasure was used along with positive and &lrm;negative emotions. The third function showed that the intrinsic goals were in line with higher life satisfaction. The &lrm;last function indicated a direct relationship between extrinsic goals with positive and negative &lrm;affections.&lrm;&nbsp;<br> <strong>Conclusion</strong>: Orientation to meaning and engagement as well as the development of intrinsic goals &lrm;increases the level of life satisfaction and results in wellbeing.</div> Orientation, Happiness, Life, Goal 109 122 http://jpcp.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-28-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 ‎ Soraya ‎ Hakimi hakimi.sorayya@semnan.ac.ir 0000-0002-0573-7541 No Department of Educational Science, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran. Siavash Talepasand stalepasand@semnan.ac.ir 0000-0002-7534-5711 Yes Department of Educational Science, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran.