A paper titled Sociocentric and Cosmocentric Coping: Cultural Logics of Parenting During Crisis in Low-Resource Indian Families by Dr Madhavilatha Maganti, Associate Professor, Psychology, SIAS, has been published in Human Arenas, a Springer Nature Journal.
The study explores how parents from economically marginalised communities in urban Delhi coped with the COVID-19 crisis through relational, moral, and faith-based practices rather than individual stress management alone. It highlights culturally grounded forms of coping centred on family well-being, caregiving, endurance, and meaning-making in contexts of structural vulnerability.
