The research question the authors’ were trying to answer was what culturally relevant factors that immigrants experience, play a role in the life satisfaction of day laborers? The hypotheses tested were that increased importance of one’s family would lead to greater life satisfaction for day laborers, satisfaction with work would lead to satisfaction with life, greater involvement in religion and connection to God would result in better life satisfaction, day laborers that believed they were in good health would result in better life satisfaction, laborers experiencing discrimination would result in decreased life satisfaction, and lastly it was hypothesized that the impact of feeling discrimination would be lessened by high levels of connection
