The Influence of Parenting Styles on Social-Emotional Competence of Children

Parenting styles are taken more seriously in the process of children's development nowadays.It represents the strategies parents use to raise their children.However, most of the research focuses on the impact of parental skills on children's academic achievement, and less attention has been paid to socialemotional competence.Social-emotional competence is a crucial ability for children to interact with others positively, express their feelings and control their behavior.The ability relates to children's social interaction and the possibility of problem behaviors occurring and also impacts academic achievement.This literature review searched the contemporary literature, introduced the parenting styles and social-emotional competence and then argued parenting styles play an important role in the development of their children's social-emotional competence, and analyzed how the parenting styles influence the children's social-emotional competence.Some better suggestions were proposed for parents to parent children from the view of raising children's social-emotional competence.