Abstract:

Parenting style has been identified to be linked to a multitude of personality and social impact variables: delinquency (Hoeve et al., 2012), aggressiveness and bullying behaviors in school (Charalampousa, Demetrioua, et al., 2018), self confidence (Mitrofan, 2003), low self-esteem and predisposition to depressive behaviours and patterns of perceiving little satisfaction in life (Milevsky, Schlechter, Netter and Keehn, 2006), inventivity in problem solving and levels of rigidity in adapting behaviours (Turkel and Tezer, 2008), attention deficit (Khamis, 2011), leadership behaviours (Eldad, Benatov, 2018), academic competence in school (Johnsen, A., Bjørknes, R., Iversen, AC et al., 2018).

Our paper is focused on establishing a now-a-day parent profile and to link its facets to the importance of parenting styles ; we are determined to point out the implications of the multitude of variables (already identified, as we take just a glance in the previous paragraph) on the family, as a unit, and on the children through their future development; all these results in mainstream directions of children and parents development derived from the variables that are identified as significantly important to parenting styles already.

We may say that parenting style is a relatively stable configuration of parents' attitudes and behaviors in relation to their child in specific socio-cultural and educational evolution; thus, the social and cultural context creates a context or climate for what is considered acceptable and valuable in relation to the child's parity and for a behavioral pattern of specific parents and which manifests (constantly) in different situations (Hoeve et al., 2012). There is a multitude of variations of Baumid's original model (Perron., 2018) in today's psychology, so that the original model is based on four major styles of parental and child interactions: authoritative, permissive, indifferent and authoritative.

Keywords:

Parenting style, personality, parents, children.