Fathering to Ensure Child's Success: What Urban Indian Fathers Do?

Autor/inn/en	Sriram, Rajalakshmi; Sandhu, Gurprit Kaur
Titel	Fathering to Ensure Child's Success: What Urban Indian Fathers Do?
Quelle	In: Journal of Family Issues, 34 (2013) 2, S.159-181 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0192-513X
DOI	10.1177/0192513X12461136
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Urban Areas; Fathers; Parent Child Relationship; Parent Role; Child Rearing; Parent Participation; Religion; Middle Class; Interviews; Grade 5; Grade 9; Parent Attitudes; Aspiration; Planning; Mentors; Role Models; Values; Friendship; Emotional Development; Affective Behavior; Interpersonal Communication; Extracurricular Activities; Success; Achievement; Mixed Methods Research; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Urban area; Stadtregion; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Parental role; Elternrolle; Kindererziehung; Elternmitwirkung; Mittelschicht; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Elternverhalten; Streben; Ablaufplanung; Planungsprozess; Identifikationsfigur; Wertbegriff; Freundschaft; Gefühlsbildung; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Außerunterrichtliche Aktivität; Erfolg; Performance; Leistung; Indien
Abstract	In a globalizing urban India, middle-class parents are extremely anxious about their child's success and future in a competitive world. In this context, the present article attempts to capture middle-class educated Indian fathers' thoughts, feelings, and contributions in ensuring children's success, through primary research conducted in the city of Baroda in western India using qualitative and quantitative methods. Descriptive data and fathers' voices highlight their notions of achievement, the nature and extent of their involvement in different areas of their children's lives, namely, providing, guiding and mentoring, practical and emotional support, communication, education, and extracurricular activities. Fathers' vision of a successful child, nature of involvement and their reasoning are in consonance with their desire for involvement in promoting the child's cognitive and social competence, and passing on "sanskar," a unique aspect of Hindu culture. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10