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Individuals are formed because of their emotional and psychological experiences. We are all products of our childhood experiences and parenting plays a crucial role in it. Effectively dealing with negative outcomes of past childhood incidents and learning to not let it hamper our cognitive emotion regulation strategies as an adult is important. An insight on another parenting phenomena called parentification and its relation to maladaptive and adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies are studied in this research. Parentification is referred as the role reversal in the parent child subsystem where the child takes up parental roles and experience pseudo maturity. Data was collected for 240 (N=240) young adults with equal number of males and females (males=120, female=120) to study the cognitive emotion regulation strategies. Findings concluded that maladaptive cognitive emotional regulation strategy has a relationship with parentification.