Particularities of Parental Competence of the Individuals with Higher Education

Starting from researches showing that the parents’ high educational level predisposed to a child's harmonious personality and from those investigating the effects of professional involvement over the efficient tackling of parental roles, the objective of the paper was to study the parental competence of high education persons (with children aged 7 to 11). The results (N = 158) indicated statistically significant differences between those with a university graduate and those without university education and, also, between those graduating in social sciences and those graduating in other domains. Also, some statistically insignificant differences were identified between university graduates and post-graduates.