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. 2017 Feb 3;17:50. doi: 10.1186/s12888-017-1216-3

Table 1.

Correlation coefficients between racism experiences and emotional health at Time 1 and 2, and demographic variables measured at Time 1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1 T1 Direct racism
2 T1 Vicarious racism 0.304
3 T1 Loneliness 0.340 −0.029
4 T1 Depressive symptoms 0.234 −0.119 0.593
5 T2 Direct racism 0.513 0.290 0.282 0.146
6 T2 Vicarious racism 0.126 0.419 −0.003 −0.049 0.499
7 T2 Loneliness 0.396 0.163 0.419 0.335 0.433 0.084
8 T2 Depressive symptoms 0.391 0.236 0.200 0.214 0.376 0.252 0.695
9 Female −0.036 0.131 0.060 0.064 0.099 0.388 −0.092 0.155
10 Age 0.139 0.117 −0.064 0.186 0.287 0.102 −0.030 −0.042 0.051
11 Minority English −0.024 −0.115 0.126 −0.077 0.032 −0.062 −0.025 0.061 0.032 −0.324
12 Minority non-English 0.232 0.132 0.005 0.125 0.193 −0.052 0.010 0.016 0.175 0.368 −0.456
Proportion .32 .73 .25 .39 .35 .75 .30 .32 .47 - .32 .30
Cronbach’s Alpha .85 .73 .88 .76 - - - - - - - -

N = 150; coefficients greater than .16 are significant at p < .05

Note: The mean age for the sample was 11.14 (SD = 2.20; Range = 8 – 15)