Table 3.
Predicted Probabilities of Having a Mentor from Multinomial Logistic Regression for Advantageda and Disadvantagedb Youth
| Mentor | Mentor’s Social Role |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Relative | Friend | Teacher | Community | ||
| Social Background | |||||
| Advantage | 66 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 22 |
| Disadvantage | 62 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 18 |
| Parental Resources | |||||
| Advantage | 68 | 14 | 14 | 20 | 20 |
| Disadvantage | 60 | 10 | 16 | 14 | 20 |
| Peer Resources | |||||
| Advantage | 68 | 12 | 17 | 17 | 21 |
| Disadvantage | 61 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 20 |
| School Resources | |||||
| Advantage | 64 | 11 | 19 | 16 | 18 |
| Disadvantage | 65 | 12 | 14 | 18 | 21 |
| Personal Resources | |||||
| Advantage | 73 | 12 | 13 | 23 | 25 |
| Disadvantage | 53 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 15 |
| Full Model | |||||
| Advantage | 82 | 11 | 15 | 32 | 24 |
| Disadvantage | 44 | 9 | 15 | 7 | 13 |
Notes: N = 7,840—Includes only respondents whose mentors became important after Wave I to ensure temporal ordering. Bolded predicted probabilities represent statistically significant differences (i.e., did not have overlapping 95% confidence intervals) within resource type and social role. Within a row of the table, the sum of mentor’s social roles may not equal the report of mentor due to rounding.
Advantage: Social Background—White or Asian,.24 neighborhood disadvantage, Parental Resources—$58k parental income; Participates in PTA, lives with both biological parents, a parent with a college degree, 3.75 connection to parents; Peer Resources—nominated 10 friends, 3.3 Mean friends’ Wave I GPA, 1.16 peer network centrality; School Resources—4 teacher/student environment, 20 students per class at school, 2 (401-1000 students) school size; Personal Resources—very attractive personality, very attractive physically, high aspirations to attend college, 113 PVT score, 3.5 GPA.
Disadvantage: Social Background—Black, Hispanic, or Native American, .78 neighborhood disadvantage; Parental Resources—$23k parental income; Does not participate in PTA, does not live with both biological parents, highest parent education is high school diploma, 2.5 connection to parents; Peer Resources—nominated 4 friends, 2.5 Mean friends’ Wave I GPA, .34 peer network centrality; School Resources—3.5 student/teacher environment, 30 students per class at school, 3 (1001-4000 students) school size; Personal Resources—unattractive personality, physically unattractive, low aspirations for college, 87 PVT score, 2.0 GPA.