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- Title: Worry and Its Relationship to Shyness.
- Author : North American Journal of Psychology
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 191 KB
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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 contributions to our understanding of this phenomenon. Shyness has been examined from cognitive, affective, and behavioral perspectives (Henderson, Zimbardo, & Carducci, 2001). In the cognitive realm shyness has been found to be associated with self-consciousness, cognitive interference, and underestimation of social competence (for a good recent review, see Crozier, 2001). By and large, however, worry has not been examined in the context of shyness. Zimbardo's 1977 book, Shyness, does not index worry, and Cheek, in an important summary chapter acknowledged it only in passing (p. 49, Cheek & Melchior, 1990). Shyness studies which have considered worry have often given it cursory treatment or focused on some particular but limited aspect of worry, such as worry about being negatively evaluated by others (Sarason & Sarason, 1986) or performance worries (Arnold and Cheek, 1986).