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Article: Worry and its relationship to shyness.
- Article from:
- North American Journal of Psychology
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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Worry and shyness were explored along with other aspects of social anxiety, such as fear of negative evaluation, and social avoidance and distress. All four factors were related, and all related to negative affect as well. With negative affect removed to control for neuroticism, worry, shyness, and fear of negative evaluation were still significantly correlated, suggesting that cognitive factors connect them. Worry may play a heretofore unappreciated role in shyness and vice versa.
Social psychology and personality psychology have explored extensively the topic of shyness, and key figures from these areas, such as Zimbardo (1977) and Buss (1980), have made major ...