Table 5.
The role of classroom ethnic diversity in predicting adolescents’ engagement in ethnic harassment from class negative attitudes toward immigrants
| b | SE | t | p | OR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intercept | −7.74 | 1.70 | −4.56 | <.001 | 0.00 |
| SES | −0.34 | 0.15 | −2.23 | .03 | 0.71 |
| Adolescents’ negative attitudes toward immigrants | 0.86 | 0.21 | 4.10 | <.001 | 2.36 |
| Class negative attitudes toward immigrants | 1.40 | 0.72 | 1.94 | .05 | 4.04 |
| Classroom ethnic diversity | −0.10 | 0.56 | −0.19 | .85 | 0.90 |
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 = 465.50, BIC = 489.09.