Demographic characteristics (gender, age, SES, school type, race/ethnicity) were only small correlates of high school students' school feelings, explaining less than 9% of variance in positive and less than 6% in negative feelings¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Positive feelings were higher for male, older, higher-SES, private-school, and ethnic-minority students, but all effects were small, with SES the largest (β = .209). → Moeller 2017 q2 i? Negative feelings were higher for female, younger, lower-SES, and some ethnic-minority students, with SES the largest coefficient (β = -.157). → Moeller 2017 (2)

Evidence¶

Moeller 2017¶

Moeller, J., Brackett, M. A., Ivcevic, Z., & White, A. E. (2017). High school students' feelings: Discoveries from a large national survey and an experience sampling study. Preprint / self-archived. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=High+school+students%E2%80%99+feelings+Moeller+Brackett+Ivcevic+White

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Regression analyses in the national survey (N = 21,678) predicting positive feelings from gender, age, SES, school type, and race/ethnicity. The article reports "the regression coefficient for SES (β = .209**)" as the largest of small effects, with under 9% of variance explained; no standardized effect size beyond the regression coefficient is printed.

"However, all effect sizes were small, with the largest being the regression coefficient for SES (β = .209**). Combined, these demographic variables explained less than 9% of variance in positive feelings."

Moeller 2017 (2)¶

Moeller, J., Brackett, M. A., Ivcevic, Z., & White, A. E. (2017). High school students' feelings: Discoveries from a large national survey and an experience sampling study. Preprint / self-archived. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=High+school+students%E2%80%99+feelings+Moeller+Brackett+Ivcevic+White

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Same regression set predicting negative feelings in the national survey. The article reports "the regression coefficient for SES (β = -.157**)" as the largest effect, with all demographic variables together explaining under 6% of variance; no separate standardized effect size is printed.

"Again, all effect sizes were small, with the largest being the regression coefficient for SES (β = -.157**). All these demographic variables explained less than 6% of variance in negative feelings2."

Discussion¶

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