Table 6.

Effects of school peer attitudes on individual attitudes - Asians (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	25.43	7.48 ^***	22.13	7.52 ^**	13.06	7.27 ⁺	11.87	7.38
Generation 2	4.67	7.92	0.59	8.07	4.09	7.74	3.83	7.87
Generation 3	−10.23	13.84	−10.35	13.83	−5.29	16.55	−4.70	16.63
Mean peer attitudes	0.66	0.04 ^***	0.55	0.04 ^***	0.09	0.05 ⁺	0.12	0.05 ^*
Gen 1^* Peer att	−0.82	0.25 ^**	−0.71	0.25 ^**	−0.42	0.24 ⁺	−0.39	0.25
Gen 2^* Peer att	−0.12	0.26	0.01	0.27	−0.14	0.26	−0.13	0.26
Gen 3^* Peer att	0.35	0.46	0.35	0.46	0.18	0.55	0.16	0.55
Age			−0.12	0.03 ^***			0.13	0.03 ^***
Female			0.66	0.10 ^***			0.07	0.09
Single-parent family			−1.14	0.12 ^***			−0.31	0.12 ^**
Step-parent family			−0.67	0.13 ^***			−0.20	0.14
Family income			−0.02	0.05			0.01	0.05
Income imputed			−0.29	0.15 ⁺			−0.10	0.16
Avg parental education			0.10	0.02 ^***			0.05	0.02 ^*
Asian Ethnicity B			0.64	0.36 ⁺			0.35	0.37
Constant	10.84	1.21 ^***	13.97	1.33 ^***	10.67	1.47 ^***	9.96	1.55 ^***
N of students (Level 1)	10127		10127		7116		7116
N of schools (Level 2)	130		130		130		130
Wald Chi-square	318.87		483.48		1977.70		2012.94
Asian Generational Differences:	^a		^a, ^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