Table 4.
Individual- and Classroom-Level Effects on Ethnic Segregation in Friendships, Peer Groups, and Dislike
| Predictor Variables | Ethnic Segregation Index
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| Friendship
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Peer Group
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Cross-ethnicity dislike
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| Effect | SE | t | Effect | SE | t | Effect | SE | t | |
| African Americans | |||||||||
| Null intercept | .413 | .0712 | 5.80** | .448 | .0959 | 4.68** | .177 | .0575 | 3.08** |
| Prosocial | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Relational aggression | 1.27 | .3139 | 4.05** | 2.02 | .3700 | 5.46** | 1.08 | .3870 | 2.79** |
| Percent same-ethnicity | −.019 | .0034 | 5.26** | −.023 | .0053 | 4.43** | -- | -- | -- |
| European Americans | |||||||||
| Null intercept | .271 | .0476 | 5.70** | .273 | .0666 | 4.10** | .224 | .0717 | 3.13** |
| Prosocial | 1.66 | .5222 | 3.19** | 1.45 | .6534 | 2.22* | -- | -- | -- |
| Relational aggression | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Percent same-ethnicity | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | .010 | .0046 | 2.12* |
Note. Percent same-ethnicity was mean-centered and entered as a level-2 variable. The null intercept represents the overall average classroom value for the dependent variable. Level-1 effects are represented by βs, and level-2 effects are represented by γs. For African-Americans, meta-R2 values were .240 (Friendship), .265 (Peer group), and .228 (Cross-ethnicity dislike). For European Americans, meta-R2 values were .189 (Friendship), .276 (Peer group), and .153 (Cross-ethnicity dislike).
*
p < .05.
**
p < .01.