Shyness and Willingness to Communicate: Levels, Correlations, and Perspectives of Saudi EFL Learners DOI Open Access
Lubna Alnaeem, Amal Alwasidi

Published: Dec. 24, 2023

A primary effort has been exerted in the literature to examine how influential affective factors are language learning. The present study extends these attempts and aims at reviewing levels of shyness willingness communicate among EFL learners relation between two their impact on communication skills inside class from students’ perspectives. It sheds light need consider effects personal traits 360 Saudi a public university completed scales. For further analysis, researchers interviewed 27 students explore perceptions aspects affect class. Quantitative data analysis showed that most participants were mid-levels both Furthermore, there was negative correlation participants’ overall its subcategories, with highest value subcategories: strangers, meetings, speaking. Qualitative exhibited perceptions, misconceptions, correlations variables, determinants WTC. findings this shed importance considering for more successful learning/teaching experiences

Language: Английский

Social withdrawal in an ecologically salient real-world context: Children’s shyness, anxiety, and observed distress behaviors in the surgical setting DOI
Louis A. Schmidt, Cheryl H. T. Chow, Chul Jin Shin

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International Journal of Behavioral Development, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 21, 2025

Little research has examined the correlates of children’s social withdrawal in real-world contexts beyond classroom. Here, we used a surgical setting as an ecologically salient stress model to study one type withdrawal: shyness. Participants were 171 children ( M age = 10.1 years, SD 1.7, range 7–13 50.1% boys), who undergoing elective surgery, and their parents 40.7 6.8, 29–59 76.2% mothers). Children’s self-report temperamental shyness preoperative state anxiety well parents’ report trait assessed 7 10 days before surgery (T1). On morning (T2), self-reported on anxiety. In operating room (T3), behaviors video-recorded coded for observed distress. We found (T1 T2) fully mediated relation between distress, regardless participant age, sex, parent This was qualified by child age. ages 9, predictive By comparison, 13, related higher levels anxiety, controlling These findings illustrate effects temperament developmental behavior, parental influences, context.

Language: Английский

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Caring Too Much or Too Little? Relations Among Motivations for Social Withdrawal, Empathy, and Prosociality in Emerging Adulthood DOI Creative Commons

Rachel Scott,

Kristie L. Poole, Louis A. Schmidt

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Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 11, 2025

ABSTRACT Most previous work examining relations between social withdrawal and cognition has focused primarily on empathy‐related behaviors in shy children. However, there are different underlying reasons to withdraw from interactions, which may be differentially related aspects of throughout the lifespan. The present study investigated among motivations for (i.e., shyness, avoidance, unsociability) indices cognition, including cognitive perspective taking) affective empathic concern personal distress) empathy, prosocial behavior during emerging adulthood. Participants included 588 Canadian undergraduate students ( M age = 18.91 years; 80% female), who completed self‐report questionnaires assessing participated Dictator Game assess sharing behavior. A series multiple linear regressions revealed that were associated with three components empathy Shyness was positively distress, whereas avoidance negatively concern, taking, Unsociability taking distress. These findings have implications our understanding withdrawal, how each motivation influences individuals connect with, relate to, understand others.

Language: Английский

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Network Analysis of Internet Addiction, Online Social Anxiety, Fear of Missing Out, and Interpersonal Sensitivity among Chinese University Students DOI Creative Commons
Xinyi Zhu, Wen Lian, Lu Fan

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Depression and Anxiety, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 2024, P. 1 - 14

Published: March 27, 2024

Despite the growing prevalence of internet usage among young people, relationships between addiction, online social anxiety, fear missing out (FoMO), and interpersonal sensitivity remain uncertain, intricate, multifaceted. To gain insight into underlying psychological mechanisms, we employed network analysis to explore interconnections them. This endeavor may provide fresh opportunities for intervention treatment. In this study, 470 participants were assessed at age from 18 22 (M = 20.18 years, SD 1.861) years. Network was used examine connections symptoms, statistical measures applied assess stability model. Online anxiety had strongest associations with other symptoms in network, "Evaluation anxiety" having highest expected influence centrality, followed by "Privacy concern anxiety," "Need approval," "Suspicion," "vulnerability." The FoMO symptom, "Fear information," direct relation addiction. information" played a key role bridging addiction sensitivity. Additionally, structure distribution edge weights significant difference gender. Our findings indicated that FoMO, sensitivity, likely play development continuation Interpersonal seems contribute increased indicating targeting these help reduce negative behavior burden.

Language: Английский

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Towards a global developmental science DOI
Leher Singh, Heather Bortfeld

Developmental Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 27(5)

Published: July 29, 2024

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Language: Английский

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Observed Shyness-Related Behavioral Responses to a Self-Presentation Speech Task: A Study Comparing Chinese and Canadian Children DOI Creative Commons
Xiaoxue Kong, Taigan L. MacGowan, Shumin Wang

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Behavioral Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(12), P. 1147 - 1147

Published: Nov. 28, 2024

Past research suggests that expressions of shyness are associated with several distinct behaviors may differ between Eastern and Western cultures. However, this evidence has largely been derived from subjective ratings, such self-, teacher-, parent-report measures. In study, we examined between-country differences on measures directly observed shyness-related during a speech task in children. Participants were 74 Chinese (Mage = 4.76 years old, SDage 0.62 old; 77.0% male) 189 Canadian 4.80 0.82 48.1% children aged 4–6 years. As predicted, the results reveal exhibit higher frequency gaze aversion lower total time speaking compared to Additionally, significant interactions country gender found for fidgeting smiling behaviors, indicating cultural expectations norms influence how boys girls express some social situations. These preliminary findings extend prior cross-cultural indexed using report measures, highlighting importance context shaping children’s responses evaluation.

Language: Английский

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Shyness, Sport Engagement, and Internalizing Problems in Chinese Children: The Moderating Role of Class Sport Participation in a Multi-Level Model DOI Creative Commons

Rumei Zhao,

Xiaoxue Kong, Mingxin Li

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Behavioral Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(8), P. 661 - 661

Published: Aug. 1, 2024

The relations between shyness and internalizing problems have been mainly explored at the individual level, with little known about its dynamics group level. This study aims to examine mediating effect of individual-level sport engagement moderating class-level participation in problems. participants were 951 children attending primary middle school from grade 3 7 (Mage = 11 years, 509 boys) urban areas China. Cross-sectional data collected using self-report assessments. Multi-level analysis indicated that (1) was positively associated problems; (2) partially mediated (3) class a cross-level moderator shyness, engagement, Shy classes higher level tend less more than those lower participation. These findings illuminate implications multi-level perspective for shy children's adjustment Chinese context. well-being could be improved by intervening activity, addressing both dynamics, such as

Language: Английский

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Developmental patterns of children's shyness: Relations with physiological, emotional, and regulatory responses to being treated unfairly DOI
Raha Hassan, Cynthia L. Smith, Louis A. Schmidt

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Child Development, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 94(6), P. 1745 - 1761

Published: July 7, 2023

Abstract The dysregulation of social fear has been widely studied in children's shyness, but we know little about how shy children regulate during unfair treatment. We first characterized developmental patterns shyness ( N = 304, n girls 153; 74% White, 26% Other) across 2 M age 2.07), 3 3.08), 4 4.08), and 6 6.58) years age. Data collection occurred from 2007 to 2014. At 6, the high stable group had higher cardiac vagal withdrawal lower expressed sadness approach‐related regulatory strategy than low when being treated unfairly. Although may be more physiologically impacted by unfairly, they mask their signal appeasement.

Language: Английский

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Sociability across Eastern–Western cultures: Is it the same underlying construct? DOI Creative Commons
Xiaoxue Kong, Christina A. Brook, Jiayi Zhong

et al.

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 65(6), P. 1075 - 1085

Published: July 9, 2024

In this study, we examined cross-cultural differences in sociability, a core personality facet of the higher order extraversion trait, which has been reported at lower levels Eastern versus Western cultures several decades ago. Up until now, however, East-West cultural comparisons on Western-defined construct sociability have limited, despite extensive research published indicating that dimension is globally relevant across cultures. Following current practices, first assessed for measurement invariance (MI) Cheek and Buss scale between Chinese (n = 816, 47.2% male, M 18.51 years, SD 1.26 years) Canadian 995, 30.8% 19.62 1.25 young adult samples to ensure any would be valid meaningful. Results from multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (exact invariance) showed there was non-invariance scalar level country by sex, newer alignment method (approximate confirmed these results, suggesting mean were biased noninformative. Our findings indicated although few higher-level dimensions such as are considered universal, facets underlying their meaning, like not clearly delineated Alongside present-day pursuit understanding through an indigenous lens tandem with notion universality, researchers should also consider narrowing focus onto lower-level facets, each likely uniquely embedded into context.

Language: Английский

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Shyness and Willingness to Communicate: Levels, Correlations, and Perspectives of Saudi EFL Learners DOI Open Access
Lubna Alnaeem, Amal Alwasidi

Arab World English Journal, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 14(4), P. 46 - 65

Published: Dec. 12, 2023

A primary effort has been exerted in the literature to examine how influential affective factors are language learning. The present study extends these attempts and aims at reviewing levels of shyness willingness communicate among EFL learners relation between two their impact on communication skills inside class from students’ perspectives. It sheds light need consider effects personal traits 360 Saudi a public university completed scales. For further analysis, researchers interviewed 27 students explore perceptions aspects affect class. Quantitative data analysis showed that most participants were mid-levels both Furthermore, there was negative correlation participants’ overall its subcategories, with highest value subcategories: strangers, meetings, speaking. Qualitative exhibited perceptions, misconceptions, correlations variables, determinants WTC. findings this shed importance considering for more successful learning/teaching experiences.

Language: Английский

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Shyness and Willingness to Communicate: Levels, Correlations, and Perspectives of Saudi EFL Learners DOI Open Access
Lubna Alnaeem, Amal Alwasidi

Published: Dec. 24, 2023

A primary effort has been exerted in the literature to examine how influential affective factors are language learning. The present study extends these attempts and aims at reviewing levels of shyness willingness communicate among EFL learners relation between two their impact on communication skills inside class from students’ perspectives. It sheds light need consider effects personal traits 360 Saudi a public university completed scales. For further analysis, researchers interviewed 27 students explore perceptions aspects affect class. Quantitative data analysis showed that most participants were mid-levels both Furthermore, there was negative correlation participants’ overall its subcategories, with highest value subcategories: strangers, meetings, speaking. Qualitative exhibited perceptions, misconceptions, correlations variables, determinants WTC. findings this shed importance considering for more successful learning/teaching experiences

Language: Английский

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