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. 2022 Sep 2;51(12):2312–2327. doi: 10.1007/s10964-022-01674-6

Table 2.

Correlation coefficient (below the diagonal) and variance (diagonal) matrices for all study variables for student and class level separately

Student-level variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1. Gender (1 = female) 1.000
2. Ethnicity (1 = non-Czech) 0.112** 0.090
3. T1: Bully −0.252*** −0.024 0.063
4. T1: Victim −0.046 0.062 −0.062*** 0.047
5. T1: Bully-victim −0.198*** <0.001 −0.085*** −0.072*** 0.082
6. T1: Defender 0.198*** −0.014 −0.110*** −0.093*** −0.129*** 0.122
7. T2: Bully −0.219*** −0.005 0.436*** −0.015 0.166** −0.099*** 0.067
8. T2: Victim −0.029 0.028 −0.021 0.464*** −0.016 −0.067** −0.068*** 0.053
9. T2: Bully-victim −0.165*** −0.023 0.052 0.046 0.603*** −0.110*** −0.084*** −0.073*** 0.076
10. T2: Defender 0.196*** 0.016 −0.090*** −0.013 −0.089*** 0.613*** −0.093*** −0.082*** −0.100*** 0.090
Class-level variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
1. Gender (% female in class) 2.101
2. Ethnicity (% non-Czech in class) −0.035 0.464
3. T1: Bullies (% in class) −0.327** 0.167 0.472
4. T1: Victims (% in class) 0.125 0.281 0.075 0.294
5. T1: Bully-victims (% in class) −0.244 0.026 −0.061 0.271 1.549
6. T1: Defenders (% in class) 0.370* −0.079 −0.182 0.089 0.020 3.950
7. T1: Teachers: No intervention 0.166 0.073 −0.185 0.060 −0.145 −0.013 0.101
8. T1: Teachers: Disciplinary sanction 0.036 −0.144 0.197 −0.064 −0.131 0.206 −0.602*** 0.085
9. T1: Teachers: Group discussion −0.223* 0.057 0.275* 0.129 0.016 −0.001 −0.413** 0.495*** 0.121
10. T1: Teachers: Mediation/victim support −0.080 −0.030 0.200 0.184 0.172 0.325* −0.678*** 0.691*** 0.605*** 0.086
11. Δ T2 − T1: No intervention −0.173 −0.257 0.180 −0.161 0.117 −0.098 −0.256 0.070 −0.129 0.129 0.062
12. Δ T2 − T1: Disciplinary sanction 0.237 0.265 −0.186 0.091 0.011 −0.002 0.380* −0.592*** −0.017 −0.461** −0.339* 0.083
13. Δ T2 − T1: Group discussion 0.185 0.339* −0.064 0.061 −0.149 −0.056 0.150 −0.199 −0.192 −0.256* −0.080 0.238 0.136
14. Δ T2 − T1: Mediation/victim support 0.182 0.096 −0.197 −0.221 −0.271* −0.157 0.164 −0.274 0.052 −0.401** −0.315* 0.517*** 0.449*** 0.047

N = 750; Values below the diagonal are correlation coefficients; values on the diagonal are variances

On the student-level, gender is effect-coded (–1 = male, 1 = female), all other variables are dummy coded; the reference category for bully, victim, bully-victim and defender is non-participant. On the class-level, variables 1–6 refer to class composition, and represent class percentages, whereas 1 unit represent 10% (possible range: 0–10); variables 7–10 refer to class-aggregated teacher intervention scores and have been grand-mean centered; variables 11–14 represent grand-mean-centered difference scores between class-aggregated teacher intervention scores (wave 2 − wave 1)

*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤ 0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001