Date of Award
2017
Degree Name
Psychology
College
College of Liberal Arts
Type of Degree
M.A.
Document Type
Thesis
First Advisor
Keith W. Beard
Second Advisor
Sandra S. Stroebel
Third Advisor
Ray V. Haning
Abstract
Anonymous, retrospective data from 32 transgender and 3,337 cis-gender control participants were analyzed via logistic regression to examine the potential roles of parental attitudes and behaviors as well as familial status in the etiological chain leading to transgenderism. It was hypothesized that transgenderism may be predicted by negative parental attitudes toward sex and a lack of reciprocal parent-child nudity. Results indicated that transgenderism may be predicted by negative paternal attitudes toward sex, decreased maternal-child nudity, and absent fathers.
Subject(s)
Developmental psychology.
Gender nonconformity.
Parenting.
Psychology.
Recommended Citation
Cockrell, Angela Dawn, "Familial Attitudes and Behaviors as Predictors of Transgenderism" (2017). Theses, Dissertations and Capstones. 1100.
https://mds.marshall.edu/etd/1100
