Relationship of Paternal Availability and Marital Satisfaction to Children's Self-perceptions of Competence and Adequacy

Abstract

This thesis represents a deviation from the usual Graduate Col lege style. Embedded within the thesis is, in effect, a complete manuscript prepared for submission to a technical Journal in accordance with the Publication Manua1 of the American Psychological Association (Third Edition). The manuscript forms the body of the thesist with pages 1 to 37 of the thesis constituting the cover page through Table 9 of the manuscript. The purposes and functions of a manuscript and a thesis are somewhat different. A thesis often contains information, data and materials that typically would not be included in a manuscript to be submitted for publication. To make the thesis complete. those portions of the usual thesis that are not necessary to the manuscript have been included as appendices at the end. Thus. this format offers advantages to the readers to the authors, and ultimately to the discipline without any corresponding omission of the traditional components of a thesis.