TABLE 1.
Demographical and descriptive statistics for the Israeli (N = 242) and the Japanese (N = 171; in parenthesis) samples.
| Parameter | Category | % | Range | M | SD | Diff. test1 |
| Gender | Female | 36.8 (49.7) | – | – | – | χ2 = 2.55 |
| Male | 63.2 (50.3) | – | – | – | ||
| Marital status | Single | 49.2 (31.0) | – | – | – | χ2 = 5.31 |
| Married | 45.9 (64.3) | – | – | – | ||
| Divorced | 5.0 (4.7) | – | – | – | ||
| Job position | Non-managerial | 74.0 (42.7) | – | – | – | χ2 = 6.70** |
| Managerial | 26.0 (57.3) | – | – | – | ||
| Worker status | Working student | 31.8 (56.7) | – | – | – | χ2 = 3.99* |
| Regular employees | 68.2 (43.3) | – | – | – | ||
| Age | – | – | 22–55 (24–70) | 35.26 (45.57) | 9.95 (8.93) | t = 10.81*** |
| No. of children | – | – | 0–6 (0–4) | 1.47 (0.87) | 1.75 (1.02) | t = 4.03** |
| Tenure | – | – | 0.5–19 (1–40) | 5.60 (12.38) | 4.99 (9.80) | t = 9.21*** |
*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001. 1Diff. test = difference test to compare Israel and Japan as groups in the demographical data.