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Direct linkLing Gao; Fangyuan Kong; Fengfeng Liu; Zixi Zhang; Xingchao Wang – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Previous research has demonstrated shyness plays a critical role in the development and maintenance of smartphone addiction. The present study aimed to examine the mediating roles of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and experiential avoidance as well as the moderating role of online social support in the relation between shyness…
Descriptors: Shyness, Addictive Behavior, Handheld Devices, Self Control
Coplan, Robert J.; McVarnock, Alicia; Hipson, Will E.; Bowker, Julie C. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
In this study, we examined how technology impacts adolescents' perceptions of, and affective responses to solitude, as well as how adolescents' own motivations for solitude (shyness, affinity for aloneness) were related to these reactions. Participants were N = 437 adolescents (297 girls; M[subscript age] = 16.15 years, standard deviation (SD) =…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Media, Shyness
Wadman, Ruth; Durkin, Kevin; Conti-Ramsden, Gina – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2011
Purpose: Engagement in close friendships and romantic relationships becomes particularly salient in adolescence. This study examined the influence of language, behavioral, and social variables on the level of emotional engagement experienced by adolescents with and without a history of specific language impairment (SLI). Method: Ninety adolescents…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Adolescents, Friendship, Interpersonal Relationship
Liu, Junsheng; Chen, Xinyin; Li, Dan; French, Doran – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2012
The market-oriented economic reform in China over the past two decades has resulted in considerable changes in social attitudes regarding youth's behaviors. This study examined the relations of shyness and aggression to adjustment in Chinese adolescents at different historical times. Participants came from two cohorts (1994 and 2008) of…
Descriptors: Shyness, Social Attitudes, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Woodhouse, Susan S.; Dykas, Matthew J.; Cassidy, Jude – Social Development, 2012
The present study examined whether adolescent loneliness would be lower within the context of positive relationships with peers. The core conceptual model predicted that hypothesized links between peer-rated social behaviors or victimization and loneliness would be mediated by social acceptance. Relationship experiences (i.e., social acceptance,…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Social Behavior, Sociometric Techniques, Adolescents
Kim, Jinkwan; Rapee, Ronald M.; Ja Oh, Kyung; Moon, Hye-Shin – Journal of Adolescence, 2008
The current study investigated associations between the frequency of and motivations for social withdrawal during adolescence and emotional distresses in young adulthood. Perceived motivations for social withdrawal included unsociability, isolation, shyness, and low mood. Social withdrawal during adolescence was assessed using a retrospective…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Values
Mounts, Nina S.; Valentiner, David P.; Anderson, Katherine L.; Boswell, Michelle K. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
A path model was tested in an ethnically diverse sample of 350 college students in which shyness, sociability, and parental support for the college transition were related to loneliness and friendship quality. Furthermore, friendship quality and loneliness were related to depression and anxiety. High levels of shyness, low levels of sociability,…
Descriptors: Path Analysis, Interpersonal Competence, Shyness, Models
Download full textPracana, Clara, Ed.; Silva, Liliana, Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2013, taking place in Madrid, Spain, from 26 to 28 of April. Our efforts and active engagement can now be rewarded with these three days of exciting new developments about what we are passionate about: Psychology and its connections. We take pride…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Psychoeducational Methods, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
