Employment chances of immigrants and their children in Germany: does sense of personal control matter?

Table 9 Estimates of the psychometric equations, robustness checks

α ^M	Full age range (17–64)	10 items
Not achieved what I deserve	0.60**	0.01
	(0.55,0.65)	(−0.00,0.04)
Achievements are question of luck	0.48**	0.29**
	(0.45,0.52)	(0.23,0.35)
Other people influence my life	0.81**	0.20**
	(0.76,0.87)	(0.15,0.24)
Doubt my abilities	0.75**	0.61**
	(0.72,0.79)	(0.54,0.69)
Little control over my life	1.42**	0.33**
	(1.30,1.53)	(0.26,0.40)
Lifecourse depends on me		−0.03**
		(−0.06,−0.01)
Social/political activity influences social conditions		0.23**
		(0.18,0.28)
Work hard to succeed		0.11**
		(0.08,0.13)
Opportunities determined by social conditions		0.21**
		(0.17,0.25)
Abilities more important than effort		0.48**
		(0.39,0.57)

Note: 95 % Bayesian confidence intervals in brackets. These intervals contain 95 % of the posterior probability. If this interval contains 0, the effect measured by the parameter estimate is insignificant
**Significance at this confidence level