Helicopter Parenting Style, Emotional Regulation and Prosocial Behaviour among Young Adults

Abstract

The present study was conducted to find out the helicopter parenting, emotional regulation and prosocial behaviors among young adults. Data was collected from 220 university students (107 males and 113 females). The objective of the study was the relationship between helicopter parenting, emotional regulation and prosocial behaviors among young adults and to identify the impact of helicopter parenting on emotional regulation and prosocial behavior among young adults. It was hypothesized that there will be a significantly positive impact of helicopter parenting on emotional regulation and prosocial behavior among young adults. Helicopter parenting was measured by using helicopter parenting scale (Buchanan & LeMoyne, 2011) whereas emotional regulation was measured by emotion regulation questionnaire (Gross & John, 2003) and Prosocial behaviors were measured by pro-sociality scale (Caprara et al., 2021). The results of the study indicated that emotional regulation has positive correlation with helicopter parenting, whereas helicopter parenting has non-significant relation with prosocial actions and prosocial feelings. It was also found that females showed a high level of perception of helicopter parenting, compared to male university students. It was suggested that males have higher emotional regulation and suppression than females, whereas females have higher reappraisal, prosocial actions, prosocial feelings and helicopter parenting. The study has important implementations in the research areas related to positive psychology, cognition, gender related studies and religion