Socially withdrawn children frequently refrain from social activities in the presence of peers.
The lack of social interaction in childhood may result from a variety of causes, including …

Shyness is a temperamental trait characterized by a fear of novel social situations and self-
consciousness in situations of perceived social evaluation. From early childhood to …

The features, processes, and effects of children's experiences with their peers exist on
multiple levels of social complexity and intersect with many other developmental domains …

Experiences with peers constitute an important developmental context for children. Within
these contexts, children acquire a wide range of behaviors, skills, attitudes, and experiences …

This book is intended for anyone with an interest in emotions, to show how far
conceptualization and research have progressed toward understanding. The book, and we …

The primary goals of this study were to test a conceptual model linking social approach and
avoidance motivations, socially withdrawn behaviors, and peer difficulties in later childhood …

This paper reviews studies that have tested for moderators or mediators of the relation
between stressors and child and adolescent psychopathology. Many studies have tested for …

Much of children's knowledge is derived not from their direct experiences with the
environment but rather from the input of others. However, until recently, the focus in studies …

Abstract Models of social anxiety and depression in youth have been developed separately,
and they contain similar etiological influences. Given the high comorbidity of social anxiety …

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