TABLE 2.

Descriptive statistics and intercorrelations among variables.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1. Gender	–
2. Residence	0.024	–	–	–	–	–	–
3. Type of school	–0.073	0.037	–0.078
4. Year level	0.046	–0.008	0.089
5. Social support	0.089	–0.077	−0.175**	–0.005
6. Professional identity	0.222**	0.008		0.035	0.684**
7. ASE	0.128*	0.019	–0.061	0.141*	0.509**	0.670**
Mean	1.81	1.59	1.60	2.66	3.777	3.705	3.378
SD	0.395	0.492	0.491	1.106	0.500	0.577	0.480

N = 302; **p < 0.01; *p < 0.05.