Table 5.
Summary Table of Moderator Effect Patterns on Key Mechanisms of Macro-Structural Variation
| Ecological Features | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Development | (1) Size | (2) Differentiation | (3) Composition | (4) Climate | |||||
| Micro-Mechanism | High School | Larger | Selectivity | Electivity | Race Het | Age Het | Gender Het | Achieve | Attachment |
| School Friends | |||||||||
| Clustering | |||||||||
| Mutuality | + | + | + | + | + | − | − | − | |
| Closure | + | + | + | + | − | − | − | ||
| Hierarchy | |||||||||
| Tau Asymm. Triads | + | + | − | + | + | − | − | − | |
| Segregation | |||||||||
| Race Homophily | + | + | + | + | + | − | − | ||
| Age Homophily | − | + | − | + | + | + | − | + | |
| Gender Homophily | − | + | − | − | + | − | + | − | |
| Classroom Friends | |||||||||
| Clustering | |||||||||
| Mutuality | NA | + | + | ||||||
| Closure | NA | ||||||||
| Hierarchy | |||||||||
| Tau Asymm. Triads | NA | ||||||||
| Segregation | |||||||||
| Race Homophily | NA | + | − | − | |||||
| Age Homophily | NA | + | + | − | |||||
| Gender Homophily | NA | − | + | ||||||
Note: + denotes a significant positive relation; – denotes a significant negative relation. Bold font denotes significance in models entailing all ecological features (schools) or at least controls for class size. Normal font indicates bivariate relation.