Prejudice in the classroom: a longitudinal analysis of anti-immigrant attitudes

Figures & data

Table 1. Descriptive statistics for anti-immigrant attitudes (n=849).

	T0			T1			T2			T3			T4
	N=	Mean	SD	N=	Mean	SD	N=	Mean	SD	N=	Mean	SD	N=	Mean	SD
Individual AIA	826	2.2211	0.74634	698	2.2314	0.72634	695	2.2799	0.71643	615	2.2840	0.76187	593	2.1358	0.75348
Female AIA	417	2.1623	0.71764	363	2.1267	0.66714	359	2.1286	0.67759	327	2.1753	0.71299	313	1.9872	0.71451
Male AIA	409	2.2812	0.77077	335	2.3448	0.77056	336	2.4415	0.72245	288	2.4074	0.79725	280	2.3018	0.76246
Nordic AIA	596	2.3020	0.72597	514	2.3097	0.72625	508	2.3507	0.70070	459	2.3544	0.77279	447	2.1756	0.76558
Non-Nordic AIA	212	2.0071	0.75611	169	2.0197	0.67525	172	2.0562	0.71470	147	2.0476	0.67207	137	1.9854	0.69677

Table 2. Multilevel models, dependent variable: anti-immigrant attitudes.

	Model 1			Model 2			Model 3			Model 4
	B	CI	p	B	CI	p	B	CI	p	B	CI	p
Fixed Parts
(Intercept)	2.2	2.13–2.27	<.001	0.86	0.29–1.44	0.004	1.03	0.37–1.69	0.003	0.67	0.08–1.27	0.028
Time	0.04	−0.00–0.08	0.09	−0.62	−1.04–−0.20	0.006	−0.6	−1.03–−0.18	0.008	−0.1	−0.36–0.16	0.44
Classroom Prejudice				0.61	0.35–0.87	<.001	0.47	0.19–0.74	0.002	0.64	0.39–0.90	<.001
Time X Classroom Prejudice				0.29	0.10–0.47	0.004	0.28	0.09–0.47	0.005	0.04	−0.07–0.16	0.486
Gender							0.21	0.13–0.28	<.001	0.22	0.15–0.28	<.001
Classroom Heterogeneity							−0.27	−0.45–−0.09	0.004	−0.21	−0.38–−0.05	0.011
SES							−0.03	−0.08–0.03	0.354	−0.03	−0.08–0.01	0.168
Random Parts
σ^2	0.25			0.251			0.249			0.252
τ00, ourid:class	0.275			0.273			0.271			0.265
τ00, class	0.028			0.008			0.012			0.012

Figure 1. Predicted values: high, medium and low prejudice classrooms with 95 per cent confidence intervals.