Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2005. / Title from PDF title page screen. Advisor: Robert E. Guttentag: submitted to the Dept. of Psychology. Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-45)

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

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Psychology Department, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

The effects of maternal similarity of last name, socioeconomic status (SES), behavior, and child's sex on college students' attitudes toward children were assessed using photographical and textual vignette manipulations describing a hypothetical child. Attitudes were measured using the newly developed Child Attribution Scale (CAS) and the Social Interaction Scale for Children (SIS-C). Results yielded effects of the child's behavior on attractiveness and overall attributions in the form of a main effect and interaction effect with SES. Also, CAS and SIS-C scores were largely influenced by an interaction between SES, maternal last name, and, at times, the child's sex. These findings suggest that maternal similarity of last name plays an important yet complex role in the formation of impressions of children.