Author Name: – Ishaan Vats, Sabah Khan, Dr. Deepika Chamoli Shahi, and Dr. Smriti Sethi / Date:- December 2023
Abstract
Background: Mindfulness, a practice that binds you with the present and makes you aware of one’s surrounding, is an essential aspect of today’s modernized world. Its prevalent that people today dwell more about the past and anticipate more about future. Mindfulness is a general human ability to be aware of whom we are, where we are, what are we doing and not giving out over reactions or getting way too overwhelmed by whatever is happening in our surrounding. Specifically focusing upon the parents who are so worried about their children’s development, whether it’s academic or at a co-curricular level. Emotional dysregulation includes the one’s difficulty to manage or control one’s emotions and our response or behaviour in response to those emotions. If there is reduced or no mindfulness, there is a
greater probability of emotions getting disbalanced, called as emotional dysregulation. This relation between mindfulness with emotional dysregulation in the parents, irrespective of age, becomes an area of concern. Aim: To study the gender difference in Perinatal Mothers and Fathers on the basis of Mindfulness and Emotional regulation. Objective: To study the gender difference in Perinatal Mothers and Fathers on the basis of Mindfulness and Emotional regulation. Methodology: A total sample of 80 parents, that included 40 couples i.e. 40 perinatal mothers and 40 perinatal fathers, were assessed. Scientific tools such as The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ)(developed by Ruth Baer in 2006) and The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-SF-18) (developed by Victor and Klonsky in 2016 )were used to assess the variables. With the help of the 19th version of SPSS –,
statistical analysis was done and results were interpreted. The current research is a correlational study in which the sampling technique implied was stratified sampling.
Discussion: It was observed that perinatal mothers had a weak negative correlation, which means that there is an inverse relationship between the variables. For their counterpart perinatal fathers, there is a weak positive correlation.
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