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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 7.
Published in final edited form as: Hisp J Behav Sci. 2015 Mar 24;37(2):204–222. doi: 10.1177/0739986315573249

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics and Correlations among Ethnicity, Measures of Academic Achievement (i.e., SAT-V, SAT-M, and Overall SAT), Social/Personality Factors, Socio-Economic Family Background Factors, and the Learning Factor (n =205).

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

1. Ethnicitya --- −.34* −.33* −.37* .23* .27* −.33* −.29* .23*
2. SAT-V --- .61* .90* −.40* −.32* .29* .11 .38*
3. SAT-M --- .89* −.31* −.34* .15* .17* −.23*
4. Overall SAT --- −.40* −.37* .25* .16* −.34*
5. Test anxiety --- .54* −.07 .04 .23*
6. Performance avoidance --- −.09 −.05 .19*
7. Parental education --- .36* −.09
8. Family income --- −.08
9. Epistemic belief of learning ---
Mean 539.66 538.10 1077.76 15.38 4.65 11.88 4.34 34.23
Standard deviation 85.89 80.69 149.32 7.38 1.03 4.68 1.81 4.93
Skewness 0.42 0.15 0.20 0.36 −0.43 −0.53 −0.48 −0.07
Kurtosis −0.30 0.31 −0.16 −0.75 0.27 −0.94 −0.78 −0.55
Lowest score 350.00 400.00 690.00 2.00 1.83 2.00 0.00 23.00
Highest score 800.00 800.00 1540.00 33.00 7.00 18.00 7.00 45.00
Maximum score 800.00 800.00 1600.00 37.00 7.00 18.00 7.00 60.00
*

Note. p < .05.

a

For ethnicity, European-Americans = 1 and Hispanics = 2; for example the −.34 between ethnicity and SAT-V means that European-American students have higher SAT-V scores then do Hispanics.