The significance is the symbolic slaying of Sansa's Id.
The effects is that Sansa's instincts are not as fine tuned as those of her brothers and sisters.
Jon Snow, Arya Stark and Bran Stark all have visceral reactions to people; they trust or distrust people or understand their motives on a visceral level.
Sansa however, is more separated from her instincts. They exist on a more subconscious level. Thus she perceives the world through an intellectualized lens, relating to and interpreting the world through the use tropes and figures from songs and fairy tales.
This automatically puts her reality in more of an intellectualized, political sphere than the others.
The way she behaves reflects this as very little she says, thinks or does reflect the inner Sansa that she has hidden away in order to protect herself.
Most people in the world are like Sansa.
The fact that her father slew the wolf is relatively irrelevant, in my opinion. The fact that a father figure did this would be par for the course for any Lord of Westeros who spends a lot of money and resources 'training' their daughter to be the perfect 'Lady', in itself arguably an exercise that attempts to drive the id under the surface of consciousness.
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