Ethnic and adoption attitudes among Guatemalan University students

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Table 2 Mean scores (and standard deviations) on predictor and dependent variables by gender

Variable	Possible range of scores	Women	Men	t	p	95 % CI_Δ
Ethnicity	0–14	12.04 (2.04)	11.70 (1.99)	1.04	NS	[−0.96, 0.30]
MEIM-S	1–4	2.00 (0.40)	2.06 (0.46)	0.82	NS	[−0.08, 0.19]
Social distance from Ladinos	1–7	6.04 (0.95)	5.87 (0.97)	1.12	NS	[−0.46, 0.12]
Social distance from Indigenous	1–7	4.26 (1.50)	4.15 (1.26)	0.51	NS	[−0.52, 0.31]
ALG	1–4	2.91 (0.35)	2.90 (0.35)	0.19	NS	[−0.12, 0.10]
AIG	1–4	3.06 (0.34)	2.92 (0.35)	2.58	<0.05	[−0.24, −0.03]
ABS (modified)	1–4	3.12 (0.39)	2.97 (0.36)	3.72	<0.001	[−0.33, −0.10]
Adoption in general	1–4	3.73 (0.45)	3.54 (0.56)	2.31	<0.05	[0.03, 0.33]
International adoption	1–4	3.61 (0.60)	3.48 (0.75)	1.21	NS	[−0.33, −0.03]
Interethnic adoption by Ladinos	1–4	3.52 (0.59)	3.33 (0.66)	1.91	NS	[−0.38, 0.01]
Interethnic adoption by Indigenous	1–4	3.22 (0.79)	2.99 (0.74)	1.96	NS	[−0.47, 0.00]

MEIM-S multigroup ethnic identity measure, short-form, ALG attitudes toward Ladinos of Guatemala, AIG attitudes toward Indigenous of Guatemala, Social distance higher numbers indicate less social distance, NS not significant, 95 % CI _Δ 95 % confidence interval of the difference in means