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2007 Annual International CHRIE Conference & Exposition 
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Table 3 
Global Life Satisfaction of Mature Respondents 
Global Life Satisfaction Items 
Freq. 
% 
Mean
1
SD 
Frequency 
Missing 
The conditions of my life are excellent. 
5.90 
1.13 
1 
Strongly 
agree 
66 30.56 
Agree 
97 44.91 
Slightly 
agree 
34 15.74 
Neither agree nor disagree 
11 
5.09 
Slightly 
disagree 
2 0.93 
Disagree 
4 1.85 
Strongly 
disagree 
2 0.93 
I’ve gotten important things I want in life.
5.90 
1.13 
2 
Strongly 
agree 
62 28.84 
Agree 
104 48.37 
Slightly 
agree 
32 14.88 
Neither agree nor disagree 
8 
3.72 
Slightly 
disagree 
2 0.93 
Disagree 
5 2.33 
Strongly 
disagree 
2 0.93 
I am satisfied with my life.
5.91 
1.11 
2 
Strongly 
agree 
60 27.91 
Agree 
109 50.70 
Slightly 
agree 
30 13.95 
Neither agree nor disagree 
6 
2.79 
Slightly 
disagree 
5 2.33 
Disagree 
2 0.93 
Strongly 
disagree 
3 1.40 
In most ways my life is close to my ideal.
5.68 
1.16 
1 
Strongly 
agree 
43 19.91 
Agree 
103 47.69 
Slightly 
agree 
49 22.69 
Neither agree nor disagree 
9 
4.17 
Slightly 
disagree 
5 2.31 
Disagree 
4 1.85 
Strongly 
disagree 
3 1.39 
If I could live my life over, I’d change almost nothing.
4.72 
1.66 
2 
Strongly 
agree 
25 11.63 
Agree 
61 28.37 
Slightly 
agree 
50 23.26 
Neither agree nor disagree 
21 
9.77 
Slightly 
disagree 
35 16.28 
Disagree 
12 5.58 
Strongly 
disagree 
11 5.12 
1
Based on a scale of 1=strongly disagree to 7=strongly agree. 
An estimation of the proposed theoretical model revealed that the model fit the data (Table 4; GFI = .99). 
The model had an insignificant chi-square value, 
χ
2 
(2, N=217) = 3.37, p=.19, which indicated a comparatively good 
model fit. Figure 1 shows that two paths, one between travel frequency and life satisfaction (
t
=1.98), and the other 
between travel satisfaction and life satisfaction (
t
=5.19), were found significant (
p
<.05). In addition, the analysis 
revealed that R
2
values were low for both life satisfaction (.16) and self-perceived health (.03). Therefore, the 
proposed model should be further examined and applied with caution.