Other predictors of public attitudes included marital status, employment status, and personal income. Being a housewife/homemaker was associated with more social distancing, less tolerance and support for community care, and higher social restrictiveness towards mentally ill. Being unemployed was associated with higher tolerance and support for community care; and being a student predicted less social restrictiveness towards people with mental illness. Being unmarried, unemployed, and being a student were associated with less prejudice and misconception towards those with mental illness; while having a monthly income less than SGD 2,000 predicted more prejudice and misconception. Marital status is usually related to age, with younger adults being less likely to be married ; this also applies to individuals who were students. In this sense, the association between being unmarried or a student and ‘prejudice and misconception’ might be simply caused by the effect of age. Further examination of our data suggested that about 88% of the housewives/homemakers in our study had a monthly income lower than SGD 2,000. In this case, being a housewife/homemaker or having a monthly income less than SGD 2,000 could be viewed as lower socio-economic status. This is consistent with findings that suggest people with low socio-economic status are much less tolerant of mentally ill patients [37, 38]. Our study also found that being unemployed was correlated with more positive attitudes towards mental illness. However, this is not consistent with findings from another study which found adults who were unemployed or unable to work to be more likely to show negative attitudes .