Shyness refers to anxious reactivity in challenging social situations. Whereas shyness is
believed to be biologically rooted, individual socialization experiences play a role in shaping …

Abstract Research by Xinyin Chen and others has documented that in past decades,
shyness in Chinese children was associated with leadership, peer‐acceptance, and …

Early temperamental reactivity and attachment security are key predictors of children's social
competence with peers. Leveraging meta-analytic evaluation of the significance of early …

China, having gone through rapid economic reform, supported by urbanization, educational
expansion, and family size reduction over past decades, is an important part of a worldwide …

The present study explored the role of adaptive and maladaptive parenting practices as
moderators in the relations between child shyness and internalizing problems (depressive …

Although childhood shyness is associated with a host of maladjustment outcomes, evidence
suggests that not all shy children go on to develop substantive socio-emotional difficulties. In …

The goal of the present study was to explore the potential moderating role of quality of
Parent–child relationships in the relations between child shyness and peer difficulties across …

Research Findings: The aim of the present study was to examine the moderating role of
inhibitory control (IC) in the associations between shyness and young children's social and …

It is our intention to examine the extant literature concerning the parents of children who can
be identified as behaviorally inhibited during the toddler period and as socially withdrawn …

Previous research has shown that there are distinct types of children's shyness within
eastern and western cultures, with different origins, developmental courses, and outcomes …