Respondents’ marital status was marked as either single or other.
Divorced/separated, married, and engaged individuals were consolidated in the other
category in order to create a group large enough for analysis. Self-perceived school
ability and intelligence were found to be highly correlated (r = 0.738); school ability was
selected over intelligence due to the fact that its distribution was less skewed. For school
ability, respondents classified themselves as below average, average, or above average on
a seven-point scale. This was converted to a five-category scale—below average,