The social emotional development of a preschool aged child influences many attributes of
a young child's life, and parenting plays a role in how each child acquires developmentally
appropriate social and emotional skills. Therefore, the purpose of this study will describe the
extent to which parenting styles affect a preschool aged child's social emotional development.
More specifically, the study addressed the following questions: How do preschool aged children
who attend the Family Resource Center for Eau Claire County score on the developmental
screener, “Ages and Stages- Social Emotional Questionnaire”? How do parents rank their own
style of parenting based on the evaluation tool, “What‟s My Parenting Style?” What is the
correlation between the preschool aged children‟s social emotional development and the style of
parenting used by their mother or father?