. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Early Adolesc. 2011 Feb 1;31(1):99–124. doi: 10.1177/0272431610384485

Table 3.

Test of the Main Effects of Friends’ Characteristics.

Variable	B	SE B	t
Constant	–.001	.02	.03
Academic achievement	.46	.03	13.96^***
Gender	.07	.03	2.25^*
School engagement	.12	.03	3.48^***
Problem behavior	–.14	.03	–3.97^***
Parental monitoring	.05	.04	1.28
Friends’ academic achievement	–.01	.03	–.25
Friends’ school engagement	.04	.03	1.14
Friends’ problem behavior	–.08	.04	–2.12^*

Note. R² = .40. This table presents pooled estimates of the hierarchical linear regressions run on the five imputed datasets to predict academic achievement in Grade 8 from Grade 6 predictors. For Gender, boys are coded 0 and girls are coded 1. All variables were standardized.

p < .05

^***

p < .001.