This paper examines theoretically the influence of parental roles to the child personality development in the globalization era. Nowdays, competitive personality with high skills, achievement motivation, good social competence, and skills to control and coping with stress are needed. To develop children with those attributes, parents can develop authoritative parenting styles with two dimensions: (1) moderate control; parents give reasonable roles and encourages mature behavior their children; (2) high emotionality (warm and responsiveness); parents give love and care for children’s. Keywords: parental roles, child personality development, globalization, authoritative, parenting styles.
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