. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 24.

Published in final edited form as: Merrill Palmer Q (Wayne State Univ Press). 2008 Apr 1;54(2):208–231. doi: 10.1353/mpq.2008.0018

Table 1.

Descriptive Characteristics and Bivariate Correlations among Variables

	Mean	SD	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1. Individual authority acceptance Grade 1	1.20	1.14	–
2. Individual authority acceptance Grade 2	1.21	1.03	.63^***	–
3. Individual authority acceptance Grade 3	1.19	1.08	.64^***	.62^***	–
4. Same-gender class mean Auth acceptance–Grade 2	1.08	0.55	.29^***	.41^***	.27^***	–
5. Opposite-gender class mean Auth acceptance–Grade 2	1.20	0.60	0.03	0.11	0.01	.26^***	–
6. Same-gender class mean Auth acceptance–Grade 3	1.20	0.66	.35^***	.25^***	.40^***	.43^***	−0.04	–
7. Opposite-gender class mean Auth acceptance–Grade 3	1.10	0.67	.21^**	.14^*	.21^***	.13^***	.41^***	.21^**	–
8. Gender (0 = female, 1 = male)	0.51	0.50	.29^***	.26^***	.29^***	.39^***	−.49^***	.39^***	−.38^***	–
9. Ethnicity (0 = Caucasion, 1 = African American)	0.46	0.50	.31^***	.29^***	.30^***	.35^***	.18^**	.13^*	.22^***	0.04	–

N’s range from 368 for gender and ethnicity to 219 for third classroom means.

p < .05;

^**

p < .01;

^***

p < .001.