An Exploratory Model of Quality of Life in the U.S. Navy

Previous quality of life (QOL) modeling efforts using data from U.S. Marine Corps personnel have identified specific domains that were related to Reenlistment Intention, with an overall measure of QOL serving as a mediating variable (Kerce, 1995 Kerce, E. W. (1995). Quality of life in the U.S. Marine Corps (Rep. No. NPRDC–TR–95–4). San Diego: Navy Personnel Research and Development Center. [Google Scholar]; White, Baker, & Wolosin, 1999 White, M. A., Baker, H. G., & Wolosin, D. G. (1999). Quality of life in the Marine Corps: A comparison between 1993 and 1998 (Rep. No. NPRDC–TR–99–1). San Diego: Navy Personnel Research and Development Center. [Google Scholar]). This study examined the validity of applying the Kerce life domains model to U.S. Navy personnel. Structural equation modeling analyses failed to replicate the Kerce model of QOL. Exploratory analyses supported a model similar to Hart (1999) Hart, P. M. (1999). Predicting employee life satisfaction: A coherent model of personality, work and nonwork experiences, and domain satisfactions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 4, 564–584.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar] in which (a) life domains are divided into nonwork, or personal, domains and work domains; (b) personal domains are linked to Reenlistment Intention; and (c) work domains are linked with Reenlistment Intention through organizational commitment.