Table 2.

College seniors' attitudes toward borrowing for graduate education: assessing the intervention effectiveness

Model I (debt attitude: affective dimension)Model II (debt attitude: cognitive dimension)
Coef.Robust Std. Err.Coef.Robust Std. Err.
Control groupRef. cat. Ref. cat. 
Experimental group 10.357**0.1330.1650.139
Experimental group 20.393**0.1360.2640.138
Gender (= 1 female)−0.399***0.109−0.1930.112
Academic ability−0.0110.073−0.0830.081
Majors (= 1 finance and Accounting)0.347*0.1670.415**0.143
Constant3.194***0.4985.192***0.543
Number of obs.525 525 
F(5, 519)4.84*** 3.20** 
R-squared0.047 0.025 
Dependent variableMean scores of each subject
on the attitude scale
(first three items of Table 1)
Mean scores of each subject
on the attitude scale
(last three items of Table 1)
Testing the equality of two coefficients    
H0: β1 and β2 are not statistically different    
F(1, 519)0.07   
Prob. > F0.792   
 0.357 and 0.393 are not
statistically different
   

Notes: ***p < 0.001; **p < 0.01; *p < 0.05

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