Table 1.
Characteristics of Adolescents and Their Schools
| Variable | Frequency (%) |
M | SD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary construct of interest | |||
| Adolescent perceived prejudice | 3.12 | 1.15 | |
| Schoolwide perceived prejudice (mean) | 3.13 | 0.35 | |
| Schoolwide perceived prejudice (percent) | 35.83 | 11.13 | |
| Prejudice discrepancy score | −0.04 | 1.11 | |
| School attachment (Wave II) | 3.72 | 0.86 | |
| GPA (Wave II) | 2.80 | 0.76 | |
| Markers of Vulnerability to Stigmatization | |||
| Race/ethnicity | |||
| White | 51.9 | ||
| African American | 22.1 | ||
| Latino | 16.0 | ||
| Asian American | 7.2 | ||
| Other race/ethnicity | 2.7 | ||
| Immigrant status (1st/2nd generation) | 22.0 | ||
| Same-sex attraction | 5.4 | ||
| Overweight | 26.7 | ||
| Socioeconomic disadv. (185% poverty line) | 30.8 | ||
| Adolescent Covariates | |||
| Female | 52.2 | ||
| Age | 15.14 | 1.50 | |
| Live with both biological parents | 54.9 | ||
| Highest parent education | 2.97 | 1.24 | |
| School Covariates | |||
| Private school | 8.8 | ||
| High school | 39.2 | ||
| Enrollment | 879.10 | 705.79 | |
| Percent minority students | 44.05 | 30.09 | |
| Percent immigrant students | 16.35 | 19.46 | |
| Percent sexual minority students | 5.51 | 3.90 | |
| Percent overweight students | 26.52 | 8.17 | |
| Percent disadvantaged students | 30.64 | 20.32 |
Note. School characteristics are at the school level (N = 125). All other variables are at the student level (N = 9,765). Schoolwide perceived prejudice = average perceived prejudice scores for all students in the school. Prejudice discrepancy score = adolescent perceived prejudice – schoolwide prejudice. Descriptive statistics based on randomly selected dataset of the 20 imputed datasets (impute9).