Predictors of Life Satisfaction: A Nationwide Investigation in Iran

Table 3

Results of regression analysis.

	B	95% CI for B		t		Beta	Semipartial correlation
		Low	Up
(Constant)	1.068	0.733	1.402	6.254	0.000	—	—
Female	0.684	0.577	0.791	12.566	0.000	0.140	0.135
Age	−0.016	−0.021	−0.012	−6.802	0.000	−0.092	−0.073
Age squared	0.000	0.000	0.001	3.233	0.001	0.042	0.035
Negative affect	−0.264	−0.402	−0.127	−3.776	0.000	−0.046	−0.041
Positive affect	0.203	0.058	0.347	2.756	0.006	0.034	0.030
Health problems	−0.154	−0.287	−0.022	−2.284	0.022	−0.026	−0.025
Household income satisfaction	0.610	0.545	0.676	18.224	0.000	0.228	0.196
Satisfaction with standards of living	1.069	0.945	1.193	16.925	0.000	0.209	0.182
Confidence in government	0.069	−0.053	0.191	1.108	0.268	0.013	0.012
Corruption	0.023	−0.105	0.151	0.356	0.721	0.004	0.004
City satisfaction	0.075	−0.048	0.198	1.191	0.234	0.014	0.013
Social support	0.526	0.410	0.643	8.861	0.000	0.105	0.095
Interesting experience	0.132	0.022	0.242	2.357	0.018	0.027	0.025
Freedom	0.084	−0.044	0.212	1.283	0.200	0.015	0.014
Safe at night	0.055	−0.060	0.170	0.939	0.348	0.011	0.010
Respect	0.076	−0.077	0.229	0.971	0.332	0.011	0.010
Unemployed	−0.341	−0.505	−0.177	−4.076	0.000	−0.045	−0.044
Education	0.246	0.160	0.331	5.602	0.000	0.066	0.060
Large city	0.090	−0.019	0.199	1.615	0.106	0.018	0.017