Higher social class is likely to be associated with greater access to resources to obtain the things that are important to a person. It therefore seems reasonable to hypothesize that social class and happiness are positively correlated.
Education is an important determinant of occupation, which is a key aspect of social class.
As discussed in class, family income and self-reported class, variables 7 and 12, are equally good measures of social class. Use one of these three choices to operationalize social class in your paper. The data are statistically significant at the .01 level. I hypothesize that while happiness for whites will continue to be associated with education, this will not be the case for blacks. This seems likely because African Americans at all educational levels have to deal with the remnants of prejudice and discrimination in our society.