Shyness
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Anxious solitude and peer exclusion predict social helplessness, upset affect, and vagal regulation in response to behavioral rejection by a friend.

29 Jun 2009 It was hypothesized that combined individual child vulnerability (anxious solitude) and interpersonal stress (peer exclusion) would predict the strongest responses to experimentally manipulated behavioral peer rejection. Results indicated that in a ... Read more...

Predictors and pathways from infancy to symptoms of anxiety and depression in early adolescence.

29 Jun 2009 Data from a prospective 11-year longitudinal survey were used to identify early predictors and pathways to symptoms of anxiety and depression at 12-13 years of age, and to examine whether there were unique predictors of anxious versus depressive ... Read more...

The correlates and consequences of early appearing social anxiety in young children.

19 Jun 2009 Social anxiety is the fear of social situations and being negatively evaluated by others. Most previous studies of childhood social anxiety have employed clinical samples of children aged 10 years and older. The current study explored the correlates ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Shyness'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Anxious solitude and peer exclusion predict social helplessness, upset affect, and vagal regulation in response to behavioral rejection by a friend. 29 Jun 2009
• Predictors and pathways from infancy to symptoms of anxiety and depression in early adolescence. 29 Jun 2009
• The correlates and consequences of early appearing social anxiety in young children. 19 Jun 2009
• Shyness and face scanning in children. 8 Jun 2009
• Startle response in behaviorally inhibited adolescents with a lifetime occurrence of anxiety disorders. 30 May 2009
• A selective intervention program for inhibited preschool-aged children of parents with an anxiety disorder: effects on current anxiety disorders and temperament. 30 May 2009
• Investigating the association between autistic-like and internalizing traits in a community-based twin sample. 30 May 2009
• The influence of shyness on the use of Facebook in an undergraduate sample. 30 May 2009
• Predicting preschoolers' social-cognitive play behavior: attachment, peers, temperament, and physiological regulation. 30 Mar 2009
• Different fusiform activity to stranger and personally familiar faces in shy and social adults. 23 Mar 2009
• Brain levels of GABA, glutamate and aspartate in sociable, aggressive and timid mice: an in vivo microdialysis study. 27 Feb 2009
• What shy individuals do to cope with their shyness: a content analysis and evaluation of self-selected coping strategies. 30 Dec 2008
• Recent findings in social phobia among children and adolescents. 30 Dec 2008
• Resting frontal EEG asymmetry and shyness and sociability in schizophrenia: a pilot study of community-based outpatients. 30 Dec 2008
• Shyness programme: longer term benefits, cost-effectiveness, and acceptability. 30 Dec 2008
• Social withdrawal in childhood. 30 Dec 2008
• Summaries of the Sixth Annual Poster Session of the American Psychoanalytic Association: part I. Distinguishing between shyness and social phobia in college students. 29 Nov 2008
• Are shy adults really bolder online? It depends on the context. 29 Nov 2008
• Shyness 3: randomized controlled trial of guided versus unguided Internet-based CBT for social phobia. 29 Nov 2008
• Salivary alpha-amylase and cortisol in toddlers: differential relations to affective behavior. 29 Nov 2008

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Technical information about 'Shyness'

Definition: Discomfort and partial inhibition of the usual forms of behavior when in the presence of others.

Descriptor UI: D012792

Alternative terms: Shyness; Timidity;

Tree Number: F01.145.813.617;

History Note: 87

Technical Notes: no qualif