TABLE 1.

Twelve Life Domains

Career: jobs, employment, earning a living (e.g., “If only I were a dentist”) Community: volunteer work, political activism (e.g., “I should have volunteered more”) Education: school, studying, getting good grades (e.g., “If only I had studied harder in college”) Parenting: interactions with offspring (e.g., “If only I’d spent more time with my kids”) Family: interactions with parents and siblings (e.g., “I wish I’d called my mom more often”) Finance: decisions about money (e.g., “I wish I’d never invested in Enron”) Friends: interactions with close others (e.g., “I shouldn’t have told Susan that she’d gained weight”) Health: exercise, diet, avoiding or treating illness (e.g., “If only I could stick to my diet”) Leisure: sports, recreation, hobbies (e.g., “I should have visited Europe when I had the chance”) Romance: love, sex, dating, marriage (e.g., “I wish I’d married Jake instead of Edward”) Spirituality: religion, philosophy, the meaning of life (e.g., “I wish I’d found religion sooner”) Self: improving oneself in terms of abilities, attitudes, behaviors (e.g., “If only I had more self-control”)