Influence of the Parenting Style on Young Schoolchildren’s Sociability

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.