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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Econ Psychol. 2008 Aug;29(4):597–611. doi: 10.1016/j.joep.2008.01.001

Table 1.

Tax compliance by dispositional regulatory focus and goal framing

Dispositional Regulatory Focus
Goal Framing Prevention Indifferent Promotion
Descriptives without inclusion of covariates
Prevention M 72.00 53.24 50.54
SD (25.33) (37.71) (41.23)
n 20 42 13
Promotion M 49.88 57.08 64.00
SD (36.99) (37.06) (33.77)
n 16 40 17

Estimated marginal means after inclusion of covariates
Prevention M 74.91 51.82 49.43
SE (8.01) (5.52) (9.89)
95% CI 59.06 - 90.75 40.90 - 62.73 29.87 - 68.98
Promotion M 46.32 59.11 63.49
SE (8.97) (5.66) (8.72)
95% CI 28.58 - 64.06 47.93 - 70.29 46.25 - 80.74

Note: Tax compliance ranges from 0 (low) to 100 (high). Covariates were evaluated at Gender = .46 (1 = female), Employment status = .10 (1 = self-employed), Age = 33.93.