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. 2018 Jan 2;47(6):1151–1163. doi: 10.1007/s10964-017-0795-0

Table 3.

The moderating role of classroom ethnic diversity in predicting adolescents’ engagement in ethnic harassment from adolescents’ attitudes toward immigrants

b SE t p OR
Intercept −2.56 0.15 −17.19 <.001 0.08
SES −0.39 0.15 −2.51 .01 0.68
Adolescents’ negative attitudes toward immigrants 1.07 0.21 5.16 <.001 2.90
Classroom ethnic diversity −1.27 0.66 −1.91 .06 0.28
Adolescents’ negative attitudes * Classroom ethnic diversity 2.11 0.92 2.28 .02 8.23

We initially estimated the level-2 variance component in the model; however, the Hessian matrix was not positive definite due to lack of variance between classrooms. Therefore, we set the level-2 variance component at zero and re-estimated the model, for which AIC = 462.99, BIC = 486.57