Table 5.

Effects of school peer attitudes on individual attitudes - Mexicans (relative to 3rd-plus generation whites)


	Attitudes toward school (Wave 1)				Change in attitudes from Wave 1 to Wave 2
	(1)		(2)		(1)		(2)
	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se
Wave 1 attitudes	--	--	--	--	−0.43	0.01 ^***	−0.43	0.01 ^***
Generation 1	0.96	8.53	0.82	8.47	20.04	9.38 ^*	19.93	9.38 ^*
Generation 2	16.86	6.73 ^*	18.42	6.71 ^**	−5.29	6.94	−4.08	6.94
Generation 3	−5.09	5.40	−5.03	5.36	0.53	6.02	0.32	6.02
Mean peer attitudes	0.66	0.04 ^***	0.58	0.04 ^***	0.09	0.05 ⁺	0.13	0.05 ^**
Gen 1^* Peer att	0.00	0.28	0.03	0.28	−0.63	0.31 ^*	−0.62	0.31 ^*
Gen 2^* Peer att	−0.55	0.22 ^*	−0.59	0.22 ^**	0.17	0.23	0.13	0.23
Gen 3^* Peer att	0.15	0.18	0.16	0.18	−0.02	0.20	−0.01	0.20
Age			−0.07	0.03 ^*			0.17	0.03 ^***
Female			0.70	0.10 ^***			0.08	0.09
Single-parent family			−1.25	0.12 ^***			−0.35	0.12 ^**
Step-parent family			−0.77	0.13 ^***			−0.21	0.14
Family income			0.00	0.05			−0.02	0.05
Income imputed			−0.42	0.15 ^**			0.08	0.17
Avg parental education			0.10	0.02 ^***			0.02	0.02
Constant	10.84	1.23 ^***	13.27	1.30 ^***	10.48	1.51 ^***	9.31	1.56 ^***
N of students (Level 1)	10917		10917		7186		7186
N of schools (Level 2)	131		131		131		131
Wald Chi-square	311.12		529.91		2004.63		2049.09
Mexican Generational Differences:	^c		^c		^b		^b

Note: Coefficients are from multi-level models with school peer attitudes included as a Level 2 predictor

Statistical Significance:

⁺

p<0.1

p< .05

^**

p< .01

^***

p<.001

Effect of school peer attitudes signficiantly different for 1st and 3rd generations at the .05 level

Effect of school peer attitudes signficiantly different for 1st and 2nd generations at the .05 level

Effect of school peer attitudes signficiantly different for 2nd and 3rd generations at the .05 level