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Shyness, Inhibitory Control, and Social Support Seeking in Preschoolers: Role of Familiar and Unfamiliar Contexts

Abstract

The risk potentiation model of cognitive control posits that inhibitory control may heighten the risk for problematic outcomes among some temperamental styles characterized by high reactivity. Because shyness is a temperamental style defined as wariness and heightened reactivity to social novelty, we examined whether the interaction between shyness and inhibitory control predicted social support seeking differently depending on context using a …

Authors

Hassan R; Schmidt LA

Journal

Emotion, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 1373–1384

Publisher

American Psychological Association (APA)

Publication Date

August 2023

DOI

10.1037/emo0001166

ISSN

1528-3542