Table 1.
Demographic characteristics.
| Items | Total (n = 1052) | Completers (n = 689) | Non-completers (n = 363) | Statistic | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | t-tests | p | |
| Agea | 31.3 | 5.6 | 28.7 | 6.1 | 30.4 | 5.9 | 6.86 | < .001 |
| n | % | n | % | n | % | X2 | p | |
| Gender | 6.97 | .008 | ||||||
| Women | 566 | 54 | 391 | 57 | 175 | 48 | ||
| Men | 486 | 46 | 298 | 43 | 188 | 52 | ||
| Transgender/non-binary/other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Ethnicity | 4.65 | .098 | ||||||
| Jewish | 969 | 92 | 642 | 93 | 327 | 90 | ||
| Arab | 64 | 6 | 34 | 5 | 30 | 8 | ||
| Otherb | 19 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 2 | ||
| Education | 29.5 | < .001 | ||||||
| Never completed high school | 11 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 2 | ||
| High school graduate | 318 | 30 | 172 | 25 | 146 | 40 | ||
| Some college credit | 231 | 22 | 161 | 23 | 70 | 19 | ||
| Bachelor’s degree | 388 | 37 | 277 | 40 | 111 | 31 | ||
| Master’s degree | 100 | 10 | 71 | 10 | 29 | 8 | ||
| Doctorate degree | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Income | 7.65 | .105 | ||||||
| Significantly below average | 246 | 23 | 153 | 22 | 93 | 26 | ||
| Below average | 283 | 27 | 179 | 26 | 104 | 29 | ||
| Average | 282 | 27 | 200 | 29 | 82 | 23 | ||
| Above average | 204 | 19 | 129 | 19 | 75 | 21 | ||
| Significantly above average | 37 | 4 | 28 | 4 | 9 | 3 | ||
| Residency | 2.75 | .097 | ||||||
| Northern Israel | 550 | 52 | 316 | 46 | 186 | 51 | ||
| Southern Israel | 502 | 48 | 373 | 54 | 177 | 49 | ||
| October 7 and war-related events | ||||||||
| Traumatic loss: A family member or close friend was killed, injured, or kidnapped to Gaza | 268 | 26 | 158 | 23 | 110 | 30 | 6.80 | .009 |
| Forced displacement | 243 | 23 | 160 | 23 | 83 | 23 | 0.01 | .896 |
| Income loss | 479 | 45 | 302 | 44 | 177 | 49 | 2.32 | .127 |
Pearson Chi-square; aIndependent t-tests; bOther: Druze (n = 5), Russian (n = 2), Christian (n = 3), no religion (n = 2), unspecified (n = 7).