Mixed and worried? Examining the association between locality type and worrying about social phenomena in Arab citizens of Israel

Figures & data

Table 1. Sample statistics – independent variables and socio-demographic background.

	n	% or M	SD
Locality type	947
Ethnically mixed	304	32.1
Ethnically homogeneous	643	67.9
Perceived locality violence change	917
Increased	647	70.6
Otherwise (decreased/did not change)	270	29.4
Prior victimization (1–5)	947	1.7	.9
Gender	935
Male	485	51.9
Female	450	48.1
Age (18–79)	945	40.3	14.9
Level of education	942
Tertiary	320	34.0
Non-tertiary	622	66.0
Marital status	946
Married	630	66.6
Unmarried	316	33.4

Note. % = percentage of respondents in each category; M = Mean; n = Number of cases in each category; SD = Standard deviation.

Table 2. Sample statistics – dependent variables.

	n	% or M	SD
Worry profile	921
Highly worried	429	46.6
Moderately worried	402	43.6
Lowly worried	90	9.8
Worry about the general social phenomena (1–5)	947	3.8	.8
Worry about the violence-related phenomena (1–5)	947	3.9	.8
Worry about the political phenomena (1–5)	947	3.2	.9

Note. % = percentage of respondents in each category; M = Mean; n = Number of cases in each category; SD = Standard deviation.

Table 3. Results of the multinomial regression analysis predicting the likelihood of belonging to worry profile.

Variable	Estimate	SE	RRR	95% CI for RRR		p
				LL	UL
High worry
Intercept	.38	.49				.433
Mixed localities^a	.78	.29	2.17	1.23	3.85	.008
Locality violence increased^b	.81	.26	2.25	1.36	3.72	.002
Prior victimization	.54	.18	1.71	1.22	2.41	.002
Male^c	−0.68	.26	.51	.31	.84	.008
Age	−0.01	.01	.98	.97	1.004	.123
Tertiary education^d	.25	.27	1.29	.76	2.18	.344
Married^e	.54	.30	1.72	.96	3.07	.069
Moderate worry
Intercept	1.65	.48				.000
Mixed localities^a	.10	.30	1.11	.62	1.97	.736
Locality violence increased^b	.39	.25	1.47	.90	2.39	.121
Prior victimization	.37	.18	1.44	1.02	2.04	.037
Male^c	−0.72	.25	.49	.30	.80	.004
Age	−0.03	.009	.97	.96	.99	.003
Tertiary education^d	−0.16	.27	.85	.51	1.44	.556
Married^e	.86	.30	2.35	1.32	4.21	.044
−2log likelihood	1479.65
Nagelkerke R	.109
N	873

Note. Reference categories:

^aHomogeneous localities.

^bDecreased or remained unchanged.

^cFemale.

^dNon-tertiary education.

^eUnmarried.

CI = Confidence Interval, LL = Lower Limit, RRR = Relative Risk Ratio, SE = Standard Error, UL = Upper Limit.

Table 4. Results of the linear regression analysis predicting the extent of worrying about the social phenomena (N = 899).

	General phenomena		Violence-related phenomena		Political phenomena
Predictors	b (SE)	p	b (SE)	p	b (SE)	p
Intercept	3.5 (.10)	.000	3.33 (.10)	.000	2.99 (.12)	.000
Mixed localities^a	.32 (.06)	000	.24 (.06)	.000	−0.06 (.07)	.349
Locality violence increased^b	.11 (.06)	.043	.34 (.06)	.000	.10 (.07)	.148
Prior victimization	.03 (.03)	.264	.13 (.03)	.000	.001 (.03)	.966
Male^c	−0.10 (.05)	.059	−0.12 (.05)	.031	.01 (.06)	.876
Age	.001 (.002)	.630	.000 (.002)	.923	.01 (.002)	.024
Tertiary education^d	.09 (.05)	.109	.12 (.06)	.033	.35 (.06)	.000
Married^e	.03 (.06)	.601	.002 (.07)	.978	−0.21 (.07)	.006
Fisher exact ratio	7.39	.000	14.48	.000	5.44	.000
R^2 (non-adjusted)	.055		.102		.041

Note. Reference categories:

^aHomogeneous localities.

^bDecreased or remained unchanged.

^cFemale.

^dNon-tertiary education.

^eUnmarried.

b = Unstandardized coefficient; p = Significance value; SE = Standard error.

Significant findings are marked with bold.