Types of shyness
Researchers done by American Psychological Association in 2009, titled Three Types of Shyness in Chinese Children and the Relation to Effortful Control, studied 3 types of Shyness on previously identified Chinese children. The studies examined the three types of shyness in correlation with children’s inhibited behavior, physiological reactivity (measured by heart period [HP]), and effort control. Examining the relation between 3 types of shyness to children's behavior and HP were based on three conditions: baseline, during stranger encounter, and in a task with social evaluative cues. This research supports the idea that there are three types of shyness.
The study was based on the idea that shy children in the Chinese population were scared and avoided social interactions while other shy children behaved in non assertive or hidden fashion while interacting with peers. The study also suggests that shyness is evaluated by peers is evaluated by children's effortful control.
The study was based on the idea that shy children in the Chinese population were scared and avoided social interactions while other shy children behaved in non assertive or hidden fashion while interacting with peers. The study also suggests that shyness is evaluated by peers is evaluated by children's effortful control.
Shyness towards strangers: Anxious strangers: regulated shyness
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sHYNESS for adults
According to another research done by Selda Koydemir and Ayhan Demi titled 'Shyness and Cognition's: An Examination of Turkish University Students', there have been relations between shyness and dysfunctional relationships. Contradictory to the research done above, this research is based off of a different age group, college students. This allows us to realize that shyness is not something that targets only one stage of development. Shyness is consistent throw out the lifetime and can occur at any age. Other key components the authors discovered was that fear of negative evaluations and self-esteem also affect relations to shyness. Overall, shyness correlated with relationship beliefs, unrealistic expectations and interpersonal rejection which can be used to explain why shy people tend to have a self-presentational style where avoid disapproval instead of trying to gain approval. In
a sense that is why shy people have ‘safe’ personalities since they are
afraid of rejection. Parents and
teachers can attempt to
help shy children by not placing such an importance on expectations that are
unrealistic. If they can give some small goals they might gain self-esteem or a
sense of gaining approval.