Journal article
Latent profiles of children's shyness: Behavioral, affective, and physiological components
Abstract
Shyness can manifest on behavioral, affective, and physiological levels, but little is known about how these components cluster. We coded behavioral expressions of avoidance/inhibition, collected self-reported nervousness, and measured cardiac vagal withdrawal in 152 children (Mage = 7.82 years, 73 girls, 82% White) to a speech task in 2018-2021. A latent profile analysis using these behavioral, affective, and physiological indicators revealed …
Authors
Poole KL; Schmidt LA
Journal
Child Development, Vol. 94, No. 4, pp. 1068–1077
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
July 2023
DOI
10.1111/cdev.13920
ISSN
0009-3920