Life Domain Satisfactions as Predictors of Overall Life Satisfaction Among Workers: Evidence from Chile

This article examines the subjective antecedents of life satisfaction of workers. Adopting a ‘bottom-up’ perspective, we assessed the unique influence that satisfaction with multiple life domains have on evaluative judgments of overall life satisfaction. Based on a nationwide sample of 530 Chilean w...

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Published in:Social indicators research 2014-08, Vol.118 (1), p.71-86
Main Authors: Loewe, Nicolas, Bagherzadeh, Mehdi, Araya-Castillo, Luis, Thieme, Claudio, Batista-Foguet, Joan Manuel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Attitudes
Business Schools
Chile
Collectivism
Cultural differences
Evidence
Family Work Relationship
Happiness
Health
Human Geography
Job Satisfaction
Knowledge management
Leadership Training
Leisure
Leisure Time
Life
Life Satisfaction
Meta Analysis
Microeconomics
Personality
Personality psychology
Psychometrics
Public Health
Quality of Life Research
Recreation
Satisfaction
Self esteem
Sex
Social indicators
Social psychology
Social relations
Social research
Social Sciences
Sociology
Sociology of work
Sociology of work and sociology of organizations
Statistical analysis
Statistical variance
Studies
Values
Well Being
Wellbeing
Workers
Working population. Employment. Women's work
Young adults
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Summary:This article examines the subjective antecedents of life satisfaction of workers. Adopting a ‘bottom-up’ perspective, we assessed the unique influence that satisfaction with multiple life domains have on evaluative judgments of overall life satisfaction. Based on a nationwide sample of 530 Chilean workers, we simultaneously tested the effects of seven life domain satisfactions that have been consistently included in extant models of life satisfaction and subjective well-being. These were satisfaction with health, financial situation, social relationships, one’s self-worth, leisure-time, family, and work. Having controlled for age and gender, results showed that satisfaction with one’s financial situation was the dominant predictor of overall life satisfaction of workers, with a weight of .36. Satisfaction with family, work, and health had effects of .25, .14, and .14, respectively. Interestingly, satisfaction with one’s self-worth, leisure-time, and social relationships did not have statistically significant effects on life satisfaction, although the first two showed t values near the critical value.
ISSN:0303-8300
1573-0921
DOI:10.1007/s11205-013-0408-6