Relationship between parents’ self-actualization level and peculiarities of their attitude towards the child in primary school age

The article presents the results of the study of the relationship between the process of parents’ self-actualization and the peculiarities of their attitude towards their children of primary school age, which are found in the communication and interaction of mother or father with the child. It is emphasized that the parent acts as a significant adult in the eyes of primary school students, which is due to the psychological features of their age, so that its influence on the formation of minors’ personality is pronounced and appears to be conditioned by the parent’s own level of psychological maturity, which finds its expression in his desire for self-improvement and self-realization outside the family. Such a position of an adult seems to be a prerequisite for a positive parental attitude to the child and building a constructive interaction with him. During the study it was revealed that a high level of self-actualization of a significant adult (parent) mediates the formation of family relations with a child of primary school age on the principles of acceptance, cooperation, absence of educational confrontation, and emotional closeness.