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Direct linkMadelaine R. Abel; Yael G. Dai; Aude Henin; Alice S. Carter; Antonia L. Hamilton; Mikayla Ver Pault; Jordan Holmén; Dina R. Hirshfeld-Becker – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2024
Background: Both child temperament (specifically high shyness and fear) and environmental stressors like the COVID-19 pandemic are known to confer risk for elevated anxiety symptoms in children. However, few studies have examined the long-term impact of the pandemic on young children's anxiety. Objective: We examined the moderating effects of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Anxiety, COVID-19, Pandemics
Liesl Melnick; Sarah C. Kucker – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The goal of this study is to examine how shyness affects a child's performance on language assessments that vary in sociability. We hypothesized that accuracy on language tasks would be driven by shyness such that shyer children would perform better on nonsociable tasks compared to sociable tasks. Method: The procedures followed a…
Descriptors: Shyness, Toddlers, Young Children, Child Language
Heyi Zhang; Xueli Yin; Xiao Yu; Winnie Sin Wai Pui; Yinghe Chen – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Overparenting is an emerging topic in parenting research and has gained increasing attention in media. Most studies have focused on adolescents and young adults in Western countries, while it remains unclear whether overparenting is related to young children's outcomes in non-Western contexts. The present study aimed to examine the mechanism by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Parents, Child Rearing
Garth Stahl; Sarah McDonald – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2024
The first year of university can be a vulnerable time, especially for students who describe themselves as shy and who may be reluctant to engage socially. Shyness, which can be closely aligned with social anxiety, often reduces opportunities for students to belong. This paper presents the experiences of two students negotiating experiences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Shyness, Case Studies
Raha Hassan; Louis A. Schmidt – Developmental Science, 2024
Shyness is typically associated with avoidant social behavior and restricted affect in new social situations. However, we know considerably less about how one child's shyness influences another child's behavior and affect in new social situations. Children's shyness was parent-reported when children were age 3 (N = 105, 52 girls, M[subscript age]…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Shyness, Preschool Children, Speech Communication
Catharina P. J. van Trijp; Ratib Lekhal; May Britt Drugli; Veslemøy Rydland; Elisabet Solheim Buøen – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Using a multilevel random-coefficient approach, we examined the longitudinal association between toddlers' early shyness and their well-being during their first year in Norwegian early childhood education and care (ECEC) centres. We used data from two measurement points (preintervention and postintervention) from a larger cluster randomized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Shyness, Preschool Education, Well Being
Shuyang Dong; Yue Song; Judith Semon Dubas; Nanhua Cheng; Xi Liang; Qiqi Yuan; Zhengyan Wang – Developmental Psychology, 2024
While negative associations between behavioral inhibition/shyness and social competence are well established for children from Western cultures, the directions of these associations have been inconsistent for Chinese children, partly due to the ongoing social-cultural changes in China. Drawing from three samples of young Chinese children (born…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Shyness, Fear, Interpersonal Competence
Mia Corvino – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This autoethnography traces the ten-year journey of one teacher's interest in and exploration of the experiences in English classes of high-achieving quiet students. Named Quiet Intellects (QIs), these students rarely or do not speak during the many district- and curricula-mandated evaluative tasks in my district that demand their oral…
Descriptors: English, Language Teachers, High Achievement, Speech Communication
Wang, Lamei; Hsiao, Janet H.; Chan, Antoni B.; Cheung, Jasmine; Hung, San; Au, Terry Kit-fong – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Early attention bias to threat-related negative emotions may lead children to overestimate dangers in social situations. This study examined its emergence and how it might develop in tandem with a known predictor namely temperamental shyness for toddlers' fear of strangers in 168 Chinese toddlers. Measurable individual differences in such…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Social Problems, Anxiety, Attention
White, Hope I.; Bowker, Julie C.; Adams, Ryan E.; Coplan, Robert J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
The present study examines within- and between-person associations between emerging adults' daily time spent alone and their positive/negative affect during social interactions. We also consider whether motivations for seeking solitude (shyness, unsociability, avoidance) moderate these associations. Participants were 411 emerging adults (ages…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Interpersonal Relationship, Shyness, Anxiety
Ling 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
Xiaoyan Liang – European Journal of Education, 2024
Enhancing student engagement yields a multitude of benefits for students. It not only improves their satisfaction but also increases their motivation, enriches their learning experience, reduces their sense of isolation and ultimately enhances their academic performance. However, Chinese students in transnational education are known for being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Learner Engagement, Student Participation
Mengdi Chen; Marjolein Zee; Debora L. Roorda – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2025
Student-teacher relationship drawings were employed to investigate how students' mental representations of student-teacher relationships were affected by their gender, age, and shyness across the Netherlands and China. The sample included 752 third- to sixth-graders (48.5% boys; M[subscript age] = 9.96) from the Netherlands and 574 third- to…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Freehand Drawing, Student Characteristics, Gender Differences
Bowker, Julie C.; Sette, Stefania; Ooi, Laura L.; Bayram-Ozdemir, Sevgi; Braathu, Nora; Bølstad, Evalill; Castillo, Karen Noel; Dogan, Aysun; Greco, Carolina; Kamble, Shanmukh; Kim, Hyoun K.; Kim, Yunhee; Liu, Junsheng; Oh, Wonjung; Rapee, Ronald M.; Wong, Quincy J. J.; Xiao, Bowen; Zuffianò, Antonio; Coplan, Robert J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
The goal of this study was to evaluate the measurement invariance of an adapted assessment of motivations for social withdrawal ("Social Preference Scale--Revised"; SPS-R) across cultural contexts and explore associations with loneliness. Participants were a large sample of university students (N = 4,397; M[subscript age] = 20.08 years,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Withdrawal (Psychology), Motivation, Foreign Countries
Download full textZilka, Gila Cohen – International Education Studies, 2022
These days, children are exposed to a variety of information sources and channels, which create more complex interactions than ever before. It is important, therefore, to develop and reinforce children's self-leadership. The present work is a narrative qualitative study focusing on the story of Lile, a 14-year-old Israeli girl who was assessed as…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Foreign Countries, Interaction
