A Multilevel Examination of Peer Victimization and Bullying Preventions in Schools

Table 2

Correlations of individual-level and school-level covariates.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Individual-level variables
(1) Race (1: white)	1
(2) Sex (1: male)	.012	1
(3) Age	.057	.043	1
(4) Parental support	.139	.032	−.049	1
(5) Peer support	.021	.011	.010	.287	1
(6) School pressure	.042	−.074	.080	−.138	−.088	1
School-level variables
(7) Security climate	−.181	.006	.059	−.069	−.049	−.040	1
(8) Safe Passage (1: yes)	−.142	−.013	−.056	−.042	.001	−.015	.220	1
(9) Gang prevention (1: yes)	−. 151	.001	−.095	−.012	−.005	−.028	.236	.357	1
(10) Bullying prevention (1: yes)	−.059	.001	−.259	.027	−.025	−.026	.158	.239	.544	1
Peer victimization
(11) Victimization	.010	−.103	−.111	−.139	−.214	.119	−.010	−.011	−.014	.046	1

(1) Bolded coefficients denote P < 0.05.
(2) As a preliminary measure, only overall victimizations were included in bivariate analysis.