Research has shown that attitudes about immigrants peers predicts bystander responses in bullying of peers who are of immigrant backgrounds (Gönültaş & Mulvey, 2021). In a study my colleagues and I conducted we examined prejudicial attitudes towards peers of immigrant backgrounds and whether that informed how accepting participants were of bullying (i.e. teasing) a peer with an immigrant background. So in a sample of early adolescents we measured prejudicial attitudes (on a scale of 1 = low prejudice to 6 = high prejudice) and how likely they were to say it was okay to bully (i.e. tease) a peer with an immigrant background (on a scale of 1 = Really not likely to 6 = really likely). Here are data from a subsample of participants from the larger study:
| Acceptability of Bullying | Prejudice |
| 2 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 |
| 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 4 |
| 3 | 5 |
| 3 | 6 |
Find the sum of products (SP) for the variables of interest mentioned in the study above. Then find the correlation between the two variables of interest if SSbullying = 4.87 and SSprejudice = 28. (Round all answers to 2 decimal points)
SP =
r =
Determine if prejudice is statistically significantly correlated with the acceptability of bullying? (Round numerical answers to 2 decimal points)
df =
Critical Value =
Test statistic =
Are the variables statistically significantly correlated (enter 'Yes' or 'No')?
We were wondering whether prejudice would statistically significantly predict acceptability of bullying based on immigrant background. What would the regression line for this prediction model be? Fill in the blanks and round answers to 2 decimal points.
Yhat = *X +
Please interpret the slope of the regression line. (Use the values you calculated in the above question).