Table 2. Means (SD) and distributions (%) for the control variables (age, gender, social class, and occupational preference) within the nine locked-in-related patterns as well as results from ANOVA and Chi-square analyses between the patterns at Time 1.
| Locked-in-related patterns | Stable patterns | Negative change patterns | Positive change patterns | Total (N = 3491) | F/χ2 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL–NL (N = 2088) | LI–LI (N = 81) | RL–RL (N = 365) | NL–LI (N = 78) | NL–RL (N = 316) | RL–LI (N = 73) | LI–NL (N = 69) | LI–RL (N = 73) | RL–NL (N = 348) | |||
| Age | 49.6 (9.1) | 48.9 (7.9) | 47.9 (8.8) | 47.4 (9.6) | 48.7 (9.4) | 45.9 (9.1) | 49.0 (8.3) | 48.9 (8.5) | 48.8 (9.0) | 49.1 (9.1) | 3.12** |
| Gender (% women) | 56.2 | 59.3 | 57.8 | 57.7 | 57.3 | 64.4 | 68.1 | 61.6 | 54.6 | 56.9 | 7.42 |
| Social class (% white-collar) | 72.6 | 72.8 | 71.0 | 75.6 | 68.7 | 78.1 | 76.8 | 84.9 | 70.1 | 72.3 | 11.49 |
| Occupational preference (% non-preferred) | 1.9 | 38.3 | 2.5 | 9.0 | 3.2 | 5.5 | 30.4 | 34.2 | 1.4 | 4.3 | 543.02*** |
Note: N = 3491: Non-locked-in (NL), risk of locked-in (RL), and locked-in (LI).
*p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001.