The present investigation was carried out to find out the role of poverty in coping and life satisfaction among Below Poverty Line (BPL) and Above Poverty Line (APL) male persons living in rural areas of Haryana. Total sample consists of 200 rural male persons in which 100 male persons from Below Poverty Line (BPL) families and 100 male from Above Poverty Line (APL) families. The measures used were life satisfaction scale by Alam & Srivastava (1996) and Proactive coping inventory (Hindi Adaptation) by Bhushan et al. (2010). Analysis was done with the help of Pearson product moment correlation method and t-test. The different mean value for APL (38.46) and BPL (35.71) person claims that life satisfaction is highly associated with financial condition and increased income level develop high life satisfaction in rural male persons. Many researches support that economic condition is directly related to satisfaction in all domains of one’s life. However, results in the study shows that life satisfaction shall be increased as Below Poverty Line (BPL) male inclined towards using proactive, avoidance and instrumental support seeking coping methods. Poverty has significant effect on Below Poverty Line (BPL) and Above Poverty Line (APL) person’s strategy planning. It has been observed that economic condition has no significant effect on emotional support seeking in Below Poverty Line (BPL) and Above Poverty Line (APL).