Parental warmth predicts more child pro‐social behaviour in children with better emotion regulation

HM Yavuz, T Colasante, T Malti - British Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Parental warmth and child emotion regulation have each been implicated in the
development of child pro‐social behaviours; however, their interactive benefits remain …

Expressions of shyness and theory of mind in children: A psychophysiological study

TL MacGowan, C Colonnesi, M Nikolić… - Cognitive Development, 2022 - Elsevier
This study examined relations among expressions of state shyness, Theory of Mind (ToM),
and resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) in 78 typically developing four-year-old …

Helping as prosocial practice: Longitudinal relations among children's shyness, helping behavior, and empathic response

TL MacGowan, LA Schmidt - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
Although shyness has been found to be a concurrent constraint on young children's
empathy and instrumental helping, there is limited evidence to suggest that this …

Pathways from maternal shyness to adolescent social anxiety

S Zeytinoglu, KJ Neuman, KA Degnan… - Journal of Child …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Social anxiety is amongst the most prevalent adolescent mental health
problems; however, it is often unrecognized due to its comorbidity with other anxiety …

Shyness and depression: the mediating roles of interpersonal competence, dormitory belonging and inferiority

F Gao, Y Sun, Y Zhou, M Sang, J Zhao, L Han - Children and Youth …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mental health plays an important role in the development of young adults. However, an
increasing number of young adults experience depression. The problem of depression in …

How biology shapes the development of shyness within specific contexts: A longitudinal, cross-lagged investigation.

R Hassan, LA Schmidt - Developmental Psychology, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Shyness is a temperamental trait that refers to fear and wariness in the face of social novelty
and is known to have a biological basis. One proposed physiological correlate of shyness …

Problematic internet use and shyness among Chinese adolescents: a moderated mediation model

H Sun, Y Yu - Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The potential adverse effects of problematic internet use (PIU) on individuals' offline
personalities have been a significant concern in internet psychology. This study aimed to …

Age-related differences in behavioral problems between shy adults and shy children

TL MacGowan, LA Schmidt - Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 2024 - Springer
Although both concurrent and longitudinal relations between shyness and behavioral
problems are well-established in childhood, there is relatively less work exploring these …

Observed shyness leads to more automatic imitation in early childhood

TL MacGowan, J Mirabelli, SS Obhi… - Developmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The authors investigated children's automatic imitation in the context of observed shyness by
adapting the widely used automatic imitation task (AIT). AIT performance in 6‐year‐old …

Originalarbeit: Die Entwicklung und Förderung von Mitgefühl bei 3-bis 6-Jährigen

J Kienbaum - Frühförderung interdisziplinär, 2024 - elibrary.utb.de
Mitgefühl stellt eine zentrale sozioemotionale Kompetenz von Kindern dar. Der vorliegende
Beitrag thematisiert, wie sich Mitgefühl im Altersbereich zwischen 3 und 6 Jahren entwickelt …