Abstract
Emotion regulation encompasses of the internal and external process involved in originating, sustaining and modifying the events, strength, and communication of feeling. There is a strong association between parenting style and the development of emotion regulation. This study was designed to explore the parenting styles of fathers and identify the relationship of the father’s parenting styles and emotion regulation strategies used by their children. This study was completed adopting the procedure of Ex− Post Facto research design using questionnaires. The population of the study consisted of secondary school students and their fathers. Ten schools were selected using a random sampling technique. 150 students of grade 10th (75 boys, 75 girls) were selected randomly from ten secondary schools in Bahawalpur division. Two questionnaires were used in which one was self-report for students regarding their emotion regulation and the second questionnaire was parenting style dimension for father of secondary school students. Mean, standard deviation and Pearson correlation techniques were applied to analyze the data. The study explored that positive significant association exists between authoritative parenting style of fathers and emotion regulation Expressions of Children while authoritarian, neglectful and permissive parenting of father has a significant negative correlation with positive emotion regulation expressions of children