Does state anxiety vary according to socio-professional status in a corporate financial crisis?

Simple random survey.

Abstract

This study examines the polarization of state anxiety according to socio-professional status and crisis perception, as revealed through a qualitative analysis conducted during the 2008 financial crisis in Montréal (Pernigotta & Tremblay, 2011). This pattern was further tested using a simple random sampling design and analyzed through descriptive statistics and independence tests on a sample of employees from a company in Gabon during the 2016 financial crisis. Descriptive analyses indicated similar trends, although some discrepancies appeared across socio-professional statuses. However, statistical independence tests revealed no significant differences, likely due to the small sample size. These findings suggest the existence of a polarization of state anxiety in financial crisis contexts, but further research with larger samples is needed to confirm these results.