Helicopter parenting through the lens of reddit: A text mining study
Keerthigha, C., Singh, Smita, Chan, Kai Qin, and Caltabiano, Nerina (2023) Helicopter parenting through the lens of reddit: A text mining study. Heliyon, 9 (10). e20970.
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Abstract
The study aimed to understand Reddit users’ experience with helicopter parenting through first- hand accounts. Text mining and natural language processing techniques were employed to extract data from the subreddit r/helicopterparents. A total of 713 original posts were processed from unstructured texts to tidy formats. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a popular topic modeling method, was used to discover hidden themes within the corpus. The data revealed common environmental contexts of helicopter parenting (i.e., school, college, work, and home) and its implication on college decisions, privacy, and social relationships. These collectively suggested the importance of autonomy-supportive parenting and mindfulness interventions as viable solutions to the problems posed by helicopter parenting. In addition, findings lent support to past research that has identified more maternal than paternal models of helicopter parenting. Further research on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on helicopter parenting is warranted.
| Item ID: | 80748 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 2405-8440 |
| Keywords: | Helicopter parenting; Social media data; Reddit; Text mining; Python; Natural language processing; Latent dirichlet allocation (LDA) |
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| Copyright Information: | © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Oct 2023 22:10 |
| FoR Codes: | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5205 Social and personality psychology > 520505 Social psychology @ 100% |
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