Studying the Impact of Indian Urban Parenting on Emotion Regulation in female children and adolescents during COVID-19: A Cultural Analysis
Abstract We focus on Indian parenting and its impact on emotion regulation in female first born offspring residing in an Urban complex. The case report relies on a case report analysis between two groups, A and B. Group A comprises two families, and their young children, while Group B consisted of two families with adolescents. Extensive qualitative analysis has been conducted to understand the ground reality of Indian parenting practices and the emotional mechanisms present in children and adolescents during the COVID-19 crisis. Multiple baseline design was followed and the measures employed were the Parenting style questionnaire (Robinson Et. Al., 1995) and Difficulties in emotion regulation scale (Gratz & Roemer, 2004), where the parents, ages between 30 and 55 years, were supposed to fill the PSQ and their children (Ages between 4 and 18 years) completed the DERS through an online test form. This was followed by a semi-structured interview to complete the analysis and get a better idea about the family dynamic. We achieved two goals; (1) It was found that the Indian family functions in a complicated manner and studying it required creating novel constructs to accommodate the cultural diversity. Conveying a real lack of present work done by Indian researchers to effectively come to any conclusion, (2) It was discovered that young children are bound to face novel challenges, caused by a new style of parenting which comprises of mixed parenting style with a focus towards maintaining cultural values and social norms. Adolescent females, unfortunately do face an authoritarian father, on an above average basis, but this is changing as the parents from Group A were observed employing mixed parenting. Which has proved our assumptions correct.