First, we will test whether the self-sufficiency scale and the entitled scale predict the KTDeffect for self-reliance and entitlement. This will be done with the following code: Analysis: estimator = MLR; ITERATIONS= 10000; MODEL: ktdsuf ON selfsuf; ktdentitle ON entitle; ktdentitle WITH ktdsuf; We predict that higher scores on each of these variables will predict higher scores on the Kids These Days scales. First, we will ignore participant age and only look at theories of change predicting ktd. This will be done using the following code regress ktdint i.intchange, vce(robust) regress ktdrespect i.respectchange, vce(robust) regress ktdread i.readchange, vce(robust) regress ktdfocus i.focuschange, vce(robust) regress ktddog i.dogchange, vce(robust) regress ktdsave i.savechange, vce(robust) regress ktdwork i.workchange, vce(robust) regress ktdselfsuf i.sufchange, vce(robust) regress ktdentitle i.entitlechange, vce(robust) regress ktdmoral i.moralchange, vce(robust) This will constitute the main hypothesis, that certain beliefs about how abilities change predict how much people believe kids these days are in decline. In addition, there is a central hypothesis that the relaitonship of change and the 'kids these days' effect may change over age. We first believe that there is a nonlinear relationship between age and the likelihood of endorsing these beliefs. At this time, however, we will not make any predictions about the nature of those changes, as they may be idiosyncratic to each ability. We will first explore the relationship between age and the type of change using using a lowess smoothing line with default parameters predicting the probability of choosing a given change as a non-linear function of age.