Table 4.
Correlations among indicators at the between-level
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLOSEKNIT | 1.000 | |||||||||
| 2 | ADULTS | 0.735 | 1.000 | ||||||||
| 3 | HELP | 0.773 | 0.862 | 1.000 | |||||||
| 4 | ALONG | 0.593 | 0.758 | 0.855 | 1.000 | ||||||
| 5 | SAFE | 0.749 | 0.853 | 0.897 | 0.902 | 1.000 | |||||
| 6 | VALUES | 0.561 | 0.620 | 0.668 | 0.754 | 0.705 | 1.000 | ||||
| 7 | TRUST | 0.742 | 0.842 | 0.870 | 0.834 | 0.934 | 0.653 | 1.000 | |||
| 8 | SKIP | 0.826 | 0.641 | 0.731 | 0.677 | 0.765 | 0.650 | 0.697 | 1.000 | ||
| 9 | GRAFFITI | 0.729 | 0.858 | 0.870 | 0.857 | 0.865 | 0.725 | 0.823 | 0.757 | 1.000 | |
| 10 | DISRESPECT | 0.489 | 0.205 | 0.478 | 0.316 | 0.254 | 0.257 | 0.320 | 0.480 | 0.382 | 1.000 |
CLOSEKNIT = this is a close-knit neighborhood; ADULTS = there are adults that kids look up to; HELP = people here are willing to help their neighbors; ALONG = people here don’t get along with each other; SAFE = adults watch out that kids are safe; VALUES = people here do not share the same values; TRUST = people in this neighborhood can be trusted; SKIP = people would intervene if children were skipping school and hanging out on the corner; GRAFFITI = people would intervene if children were spray-painting graffiti; DISRESPECT = people would intervene if children were showing disrespect to an adult. Items 4 and 6 were reverse coded.
These correlations were taken from the sample used for the multilevel exploratory factor analysis (ML-EFA).