Article: Health: Low birth weight linked to being shy and cautious personality as adult.

Karachi, July 26 (PPI):A low birth weight is linked to being shy and having a cautious personality as an adult. Recent studies have found personality differences among adult survivors of preterm birth, including higher anxiety, cautiousness and difficulty in forming social ties. To find out how weight at birth affects the personality of the children later in life, researchers from Canada compared 71 extremely low birth weight and 83 normal birth weight young adults. The researchers assessed four components of personality: temperament (shyness and sociability, neuroticism and extraversion), motivation (behavioural inhibition and behavioural activation), cognitive and ...

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