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Social Withdrawal and Shyness

  • University of Maryland, College Park
  • Carleton University

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22 Scopus citations
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development
Subtitle of host publicationSecond Edition
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages434-452
Number of pages19
ISBN (Print)9781405196796
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 22 2011

Keywords

  • Correlates and outcomes of shyness and social withdrawal
  • Etiological factors, producing - a socially withdrawn profile in childhood
  • Peer interaction, influencing children's understanding of rules and norms - of their peer subcultures
  • Shyness, most stable of temperamental and personality characteristics
  • Social withdrawal and shyness
  • Social withdrawal, "umbrella term" - two different "reasons" why children might choose to play alone
  • Temperamental shyness - biological underpinnings, development of shyness and social withdrawal in infancy and childhood
  • Theoretical origins of developmental research - on social withdrawal, writings of piaget and mead
  • Withdrawn children, likely as nonwithdrawn ones - to have at least one mutual stable best friendship

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