Table 6.
Associations between “peer”, “scholastic” and “sport” factors and indicators of peer relationships, academic attitudes and achievement and sporting activity and interests (adjusted for gender).
| Peer status |
Scholastic status |
Sports status |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimated marginal mean | F (sig) | Partial eta-squared | Estimated marginal mean | F (sig) | Partial eta-squared | Estimated marginal mean | F (sig) | Partial eta-squared | ||
| Friendship nominations received | ||||||||||
| None | −.305 | −.223 | −.208 | |||||||
| 1 | −.223 | −.150 | −.017 | |||||||
| 2–3 | −.086 | −.052 | −.005 | |||||||
| 4–5 | .098 | .038 | −.006 | |||||||
| 6 or more | .203 | 21.0 (.000) | .027 | .160 | 10.0 (.000) | .013 | .101 | 4.5 (.001) | .006 | |
| Sociometric group size | ||||||||||
| Isolate | −.184 | −.247 | −.115 | |||||||
| Dyad | −.164 | −.197 | −.011 | |||||||
| 3–5 | −.028 | −.128 | .029 | |||||||
| 6–11 | .048 | .051 | −.007 | |||||||
| 12 or more | .080 | 6.7 (.000) | .009 | .167 | 16.4 (.000) | .021 | .069 | 2.7 (.029) | .003 | |
| Have a group or gang at school | ||||||||||
| Yes | .058 | −.007 | .027 | |||||||
| No | −.209 | 34.8 (.000) | .011 | .044 | 1.3 (.262) | .000 | −.095 | 7.9 (.005) | .003 | |
| Victimisation | ||||||||||
| Never | .059 | .076 | .101 | |||||||
| Less | .019 | −.001 | −.030 | |||||||
| Weekly or more | −.236 | 13.7 (.000) | .009 | −.211 | 12.3 (.000) | .008 | −.165 | 13.7 (.000) | .009 | |
| Skip school if get the chance | ||||||||||
| Strongly disagree | −.138 | .488 | .108 | |||||||
| Disagree | −.007 | −.036 | −.019 | |||||||
| Agree | .206 | −.526 | −.096 | |||||||
| Strongly agree | .267 | 18.2 (.000) | .018 | −1.050 | 230.6 (.000) | .185 | −.181 | 8.4 (.000) | .008 | |
| Credit-level standard grade entries | ||||||||||
| One None | −.035 | −.270 | .027 | |||||||
| 1–4 | −.002 | −.272 | −.012 | |||||||
| 5–6 | −.022 | .319 | −.003 | |||||||
| 7–8 | .065 | 1.3 (.275) | .001 | .614 | 168.3 (.000)* | .148 | .008 | 0.2 (.874) | .000 | |
| Plans for after school | ||||||||||
| Education (HE or FE) | −.032 | .198 | −.027 | |||||||
| Training or work | .100 | 8.1 (.005) | .003 | −.596 | 314.2 (.000) | .097 | .090 | 6.9 (.009) | .002 | |
| Spare time exercise or sports | ||||||||||
| Never | .033 | −.418 | −.979 | |||||||
| Weekly or less | −.024 | .026 | −.306 | |||||||
| Daily or most days | .022 | 0.9 (.415)* | .001 | .075 | 27.3 (.000)* | .018 | .557 | 531.9 (.000) | .259 | |
| Spare time watch sports matches | ||||||||||
| Never | −.083 | .046 | −.400 | |||||||
| Weekly or less | .036 | .026 | .181 | |||||||
| Daily or most days | .131 | 6.4 (.002)* | .004 | −.239 | 9.6 (.000) | .006 | .570 | 170.8 (.000)* | .101 | |
* = Interaction with gender significant p < .01.