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Child Psychiatry & Human Development
Gepubliceerd in: Child Psychiatry & Human Development 4/2020

04-02-2020 | Original Article

Trajectories of Observed Shyness and Psychosocial Adjustment in Children

Auteurs: Kristie L. Poole, Charles E. Cunningham, Louis A. Schmidt

Gepubliceerd in: Child Psychiatry & Human Development | Uitgave 4/2020

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Abstract

Shyness can manifest as inhibition, fear, and avoidance in the context of social novelty and situations of perceived social evaluation. In the present study, 130 children (Mage = 7.6 years, SD = 1.8) participated in a videotaped self-presentation task across three separate visits spanning approximately 3 years in early and middle childhood. Children’s observed shyness was best characterized by two trajectories, including a high-stable class (19%) and a low-stable class (81%). Girls were more likely than boys to follow a pattern of high-stable observed shyness. Further, children in the high-stable observed shyness class were rated by parents and teachers as more socially anxious relative to children in the low-stable class, and boys in the high-stable observed shyness class were rated by their teachers as displaying more depressive symptoms relative to girls. These findings suggest that a subset of children display stable behavioral shyness, and this is correlated with psychosocial functioning.
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Given the attrition rate by T3, we also examined classes of observed shyness using only T1 and T2 behavioral data. The results were identical, with the exception that the high observed shyness class contained 24 children and the low observed shyness class contained 101 children. Likewise, when examining the relation between observed shyness classes using only T1 and T2 behavioral data and the correlates below, the statistical significance and direction of findings were the same. Accordingly, we retained behavioral data from all three visits in our analyses.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Trajectories of Observed Shyness and Psychosocial Adjustment in Children
Auteurs
Kristie L. Poole
Charles E. Cunningham
Louis A. Schmidt
Publicatiedatum
04-02-2020
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Child Psychiatry & Human Development / Uitgave 4/2020
Print ISSN: 0009-398X
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3327
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-020-00962-1

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