abstract: Life satisfaction in people with physical disabilities is on average lower than people without disabilities. This reduction in life satisfaction may be due to a reduction in domain control. This study examines how domain control predicts life satisfaction when added to a model of other salient life satisfaction predictors. Using email survey methodology, five separate scales where used on two separate populations; people with (n= 44) and without (n= 43) a physical disability to determine each groups life satisfaction. It was found that when domain control is added to the bottom-up theory of life satisfaction, the independent direct relationships of domain control, domain importance, positive affect, and negative affect are eliminated from a stepwise multiple regression equation with domain satisfaction being the only significant predictor (â = 4.38, p< .001 for people with a physical disabilities and â = 5.48, p< .001 for people without a physical disability) of life satisfaction. The study results demonstrate that life satisfaction is predicted the same way for people with and without disabilities. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Recreation and Tourism Studies 2010
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:8709 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Contributors | Casto, Jr, Joseph Raymond (Author), Rodriuez, Ariel (Advisor), Grossman, Gary (Committee member), Ramella, Kelly (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Masters Thesis |
| Format | 48 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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