M. JOSEPH SIRGY and TERRI CORNWELL FURTHER VALIDATION OF THE SIRGY ET AL.’S MEASURE OF COMMUNITY QUALITY OF LIFE (Accepted 11 May 2001) ABSTRACT. Sirgy et al. (2000) have developed a measure of community quality of life (QOL). This measure captures residents’ satisfaction with community- based services in the way that these services contribute to global satisfaction with the community and overall life satisfaction. The measure was validated nomologically by testing hypotheses directly deduced from a theoretical model that relates residents’ satisfaction with community-based services with global community satisfaction and global life satisfaction. The study reported in this paper replicates and extends Sirgy et al.’s (2000) study. Specifically, the con- ceptual model that was used to test the nomological (predictive) validity of the community QOL measure was further expanded and refined. The modified measure is based on the theoretical notion that satisfaction with the community at large (global community satisfaction) is mostly determined by satisfaction with government services (police, fire/rescue, library, etc.), business services (bank- ing/savings, insurance, department stores, etc.), nonprofit services (alcohol/drug abuse services, crisis intervention, religious services, etc.), as well as satisfac- tion with other aspects of the community such as quality of the environment, rate of change to the natural landscape, race relations, cost of living, crime, ties with people, neighborhood, and housing. In turn, global community satisfaction together with satisfaction with other overall life domains (work, family, leisure, etc.) affect global life satisfaction. Survey data from a variety of communities located in southwest Virginia were collected to further test the nomological valid- ity of the measure. The results provided additional nomological validation support to the community QOL measure. INTRODUCTION Sirgy, Rahtz, Cicic, and Underwood (2000) have developed a community-based QOL measure based on a theoretical model shown in Figure 1. The model makes the distinction between “community” and “other” life domains, both contributing to perceived QOL (global life satisfaction). The community life domain pertains to one’s perception of one’s overall community. Social Indicators Research 56: 125–143, 2001. © 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.