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Table 5 Multi-level logit regressions. The effects of significant others on habituated university aspirations for Dutch & Swedish students

From: Early tracking and immigrant optimism: a comparative study of educational aspirations among students in disadvantaged schools in Sweden and the Netherlands

Variable

The Netherlands

Sweden

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

Grades

0.393***

0.382***

0.278**

0.979***

0.985***

0.838***

HE parents

0.500*

0.518*

0.321

0.403**

0.421**

0.310

Female

−0.049

−0.298

−0.294

0.128

−0.329

−0.451*

Non-immigrants (reference)

      

 EU-parents

0.077

0.083

−0.259

0.478*

0.371

−0.031

 EU-born

0.707

0.636

0.148

−0.147

−0.239

−0.619

 TC-parents

0.060

−0.005

−0.263

0.499**

0.388*

0.005

 TC-born

0.234

0.170

−0.326

0.780***

0.721**

0.323

 Age

−0.229*

−0.232*

−0.207*

−0.319**

−0.296**

−0.281*

 Parents’ expectations

  

0.933***

  

0.878***

 Teachers’ expectations

  

1.398***

  

0.794***

 Peer study-attitudes

 

0.375***

0.283**

 

0.583***

0.477***

 Peer adult-life attitudes

 

−0.066

−0.106

 

0.057

0.065

 Female friends

 

0.068

0.024

 

0.188*

0.229**

 Constant

−0.094

−0.028

−0.497

0.795

−0.153

−0.767

 Constant (Level 2)

0.239

0.245

0.157

0.020

0.018

0.016

 N

1653

1653

1653

1549

1549

1549

  1. Legend: *p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001