by Siu Fung Ying. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-54). / Abstract and questionnare in English and Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.iii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / LIST OF TABLES --- p.v / Chapter CHAPTER 1: --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER 2: --- METHODOLOGY --- p.14 / Chapter CHAPTER 3: --- RESULT --- p.20 / Chapter CHAPTER 4: --- DISCUSSION --- p.37 / REFERENCES --- p.48 / APPENDIX --- p.55

by Simmy Lai-sim Chu. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-71). / Abstract and questionnaire also in Chinese. / Abstract --- p.ii / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / Table of Contents --- p.iv / List of Tables --- p.vi / List of Appendices --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter I - --- Introduction --- p.1 / Marital conflicts and children's adjustment --- p.1 / Theory linking marital conflicts and children's adjustment --- p.3 / The role of attribution --- p.4 / Factors affecting children's attribution --- p.7 / Moderating effect of parent-child relationship and maternal stress --- p.9 / Purposes of the present study and hypotheses --- p.10 / Chapter Chapter II - --- Method --- p.12 / Participants --- p.12 / Child-completed measures --- p.13 / Mother-completed measures --- p.17 / Procedure --- p.19 / Coding of responses --- p.20 / Chapter Chapter III- --- Results --- p.22 / Exploration of children's and mothers' attribution of marital conflicts --- p.22 / Children's involvement --- p.33 / Factors associated with attribution --- p.34 / Predicting children's adjustment --- p.36 / Relationship between attribution and adjustment --- p.44 / Chapter Chapter IV- --- Discussion --- p.48 / Children's attribution of marital conflicts --- p.48 / Link between marital conflict and children's adjustment --- p.53 / Parent-child relation --- p.56 / Implication in intervention for children exposed to marital conflicts --- p.58 / Limitation and suggestion for further study --- p.59 / References --- p.62 / Appendices --- p.72