Keyword: «personality of a preschooler»

The article presents a study of the self-esteem of older preschoolers in families with different types of parent-child relationships. In the work, such aspects of the development of a preschooler as self-esteem and socialization, since it is at this age that the active formation of basic self-esteem takes place both in the family and in society. The study empirically substantiates the assumption that a favorable attitude of parents to children, characterized by emotional acceptance and cooperative forms of interaction, contributes to the formation of self-esteem of middle and high levels in older preschool children. Low self-esteem is formed under the influence of negative forms of parent-child relationships (emotional rejection, infantilization of the child, tight control).