The Influence of Parenting Styles on the Development of Prosocial Behavior in Children

This article intends to describe the influences of the different parenting styles in the development of prosocial behaviors in primary school children and to identify the parenting style that contributes the most to develop them. For this purpose. Spanish and English articles that have been published in the last ten years have been selected. It was found that parents are models that children tend to imitate and the parental style they use exerts great influence, both facilitative and inhibitory, on the development of prosocial behaviors. Within the different parenting styles, the democratic style is the one that would help the most to develop this kind of behaviors.