Influence of the Parenting Style on Young Schoolchildren’s Sociability
Influence of the Parenting Style on Young Schoolchildren’s Sociability
Author(s): Miruna Moroianu, Florentina HRIŢAC, Raluca Mihaela LEVONIAN, George Cosmin Muşat, Adrian Dorin Georgescu, Diana Victoria GiduSubject(s): Social Sciences, Education, School education, Educational Psychology, Social psychology and group interaction, Sociology of Education
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: parental style; sociability; classroom environment; children; young pupils;
Summary/Abstract: The current paper aims to assess whether the parenting style adopted by parents influences their children’s level of sociableness. For research purposes, 52 children of the 4th grade from a Romanian school in Constanța and 104 parents have undergone two psychological tests. The research methods chosen were the well-known parental style questionnaire “Do you know your parental style?” by Goyetche (2022) and the questionnaire “The sociability test” by Roşca & Tudoran (2005) and Martin (2005). The results show that the democratic parental style is associated with a higher degree of sociability among 4th-grade pupils (p<0,001). The parenting style that most supports the development of young schoolchildren’s sociability is the democratic one, followed by the permissive one. The authoritarian parenting style scored the lowest in our findings, leading to the conclusion that this style may hinder children’s emotional development in the long term.
Journal: Revista Românească pentru Educaţie Multidimensională
- Issue Year: 16/2024
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 594-605
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
