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The Relationship of Behavioral Inhibition and Shyness to Anxiety Disorder

Abstract

Behavioral inhibition to the unfamiliar is a temperamental construct that refers to a characteristic propensity to react to both social and nonsocial novelty with inhibition. In contrast, shyness refers to feelings of discomfort in social situations but not nonsocial situations. Both shyness and behavioral inhibition are associated with anxiety disorders in children and adults. We compared the role of social and nonsocial inhibition in …

Authors

VAN AMERINGEN M; MANCINI C; OAKMAN JM

Journal

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol. 186, No. 7, pp. 425–431

Publisher

Wolters Kluwer

Publication Date

7 1998

DOI

10.1097/00005053-199807000-00007

ISSN

0022-3018