Table 3.
Descriptive statistics of subjective health status, satisfaction with income, and locus of control for individuals in East- and West-Germany across time.
| Health status | Income satisfaction | Locus of control | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
| East-Germany (n = 266) | ||||||
| 2003 | 3.91 | 0.77 | 2.62 | 0.96 | 4.08 | 0.72 |
| 2004 | 3.84 | 0.79 | 2.61 | 0.92 | 4.05 | 0.74 |
| 2005 | 3.8 | 0.8 | 2.63 | 1.00 | 3.93 | 0.78 |
| 2006 | 3.8 | 0.74 | 2.58 | 0.95 | 4.02 | 0.72 |
| 2007 | 3.83 | 0.73 | 2.63 | 0.97 | 4.00 | 0.71 |
| 2008 | 3.66 | 0.77 | 2.61 | 0.96 | 3.82 | 0.75 |
| 2009 | 3.78 | 0.72 | 2.69 | 0.9 | 4.03 | 0.63 |
| West-Germany (n = 85) | ||||||
| 2003 | 4.02 | 0.77 | 2.79 | 0.93 | 4.13 | 0.80 |
| 2004 | 4.02 | 0.77 | 2.88 | 0.81 | 4.15 | 0.65 |
| 2005 | 4.04 | 0.82 | 2.85 | 0.88 | 4.15 | 0.63 |
| 2006 | 3.96 | 0.84 | 2.80 | 0.88 | 4.16 | 0.67 |
| 2007 | 4.02 | 0.69 | 3.02 | 0.95 | 4.12 | 0.66 |
| 2008 | 3.92 | 0.74 | 2.78 | 0.85 | 4.04 | 0.71 |
| 2009 | 4.00 | 0.69 | 2.98 | 0.74 | 4.11 | 0.69 |