A new study explores shyness in children, finding that temperamental shyness may be a distinct trait in some, while others experience shyness as an emotional state in specific situations. The research offers insight into children's social, psychological, and academic adjustment. What is shyness?
Researchers have conducted a study to better understand shyness in children, focusing on its behavioral, affective, and physiological components. Results indicated that temperamental shyness, a stable trait across development, may exist in a distinct group of children over time, while a larger subset may experience shyness as an emotional state in certain situations.
“Our findings provide empirical support for the long-theorized idea that there may be a subset of temperamentally shy children who manifest heightened behavioral, affective, and physiological reactivity in response to a social stressor, as well as a subset of children who may experience only the affective component which may reflect state shyness,” as explained by Kristie Poole who conducted the study at McMaster University and is now a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Brock University.
For their time, families were given $20 gift cards and children received a Junior Scientist Certificate. At one- and two-years post evaluations, parents completed an online follow-up survey on their child’s temperament. They responded to statements such as “child acts shy around new people.” This examined how a child’s responses to the speech were related to their temperament across time. Parents were given a $10 gift card at each follow-up.
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