Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for the observed outcome variables (weighted)

Variable a	Study 1 Prereccession (N = 2,354)	Study 2 Recession (N = 2,322)	Combined Sample (N = 4.676)
Job insecurity
M	1.60	1.77	1.69
SD	0.74	0.86	0.81
% insecure	13.4%	21.2%	17.2%
% secure	86.6%	78.8%	82.8%
Potential range	1—4	1—4	1—4
Observed range	1—4	1—4	1—4
Ordinal composite reliability	.83	.88	.85
Employment insecurity
M	1.57	2.16	1.86
SD	0.74	0.92	0.88
% insecure	11.4%	33.5%	22.3%
% secure	88.6%	66.5%	77.7%
Potential range	1—4	1—4	1—4
Observed range	1—4	1—4	1—4
Ordinal composite reliability	.87	.90	.90
Physical health
M	3.80	3.63	3.71
SD	0.79	0.85	0.82
% poor health	8.1%	13.7%	10.8%
% good health	91.9%	86.3%	89.2%
Potential range	1—5	1—5	1—5
Observed range	1—5	1—5	1—5
Ordinal composite reliability	.75	.80	.78
Mental health
M	3.94	3.80	3.87
SD	0.80	0.87	0.84
% poor health	6.8%	10.4%	8.5%
% good health	93.2%	89.6%	91.5%
Potential range	1—5	1—5	1—5
Observed range	1—5	1—5	1—5
Ordinal composite reliability	.75	.86	.82
Organizational commitment
M	3.09	2.93	3.01
SD	0.92	0.96	0.94
% uncommitted	24.0%	29.5%	26.7%
% committed	76.0%	70.5%	73.3%
Potential range	1—4	1—4	1—4
Observed range	1—4	1—4	1—4
Ordinal composite reliability	.92	.93	.93

^aAll weighted means and percentages differed across Studies 1 and 2 at p < .002.