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A central issue in thinking about the quality of life is the relationship between objective and subjective indicators. A study was conducted to examine the relative importance of objective status indicators, internal referants of life_conditions,_residential characteristics, and self-esteem_on life satisfaction. Socioeconomic status and gender_of the_respondent_were control variables. This study is a secondary data analysis of a longitudinal survey of life plans of youth_from_rural, low-income families from Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee. In the original study, 580 mother/child pairs of fifth and sixth grade students participated in the first_phase of the longitudinal project. The present study involved 322 Appalachian whites who participated in the three_data collection_periods (1969, 1975, and 1979) of the longitudinal_project._Their responses to survey questions were subjected to a_multiple regression analysis