Italian validation of the Children’s Shyness Questionnaire: Exploring associations between shyness and psychosocial functioning

Shyness: Subtypes, Psychosocial Correlates, and Treatment Interventions

Decades of research on the study of introversion and extraversion have allowed researchers to distinguish among individual differences on each of these dimensions. Research indicates that shyness, a rather common personality trait, is a construct that is related, but not identical, to introversion. Once regarded as a unitary construct, modern day personality theorists propose that shyness is ba...

Self-reported shyness in Chinese children: Validation of the Children’s Shyness Questionnaire and exploration of its links with adjustment and the role of coping

The aims of the present study were to: (1) examine the psychometric properties of the Chinese version on the Children’s Shyness Questionnaire (Crozier, 1995) among elementary school children; and (2) explore the links between shyness, coping style, and indices of socio-emotional functioning. Participants were N = 580 children (311 boys, 269 girls, Mage = 11.14 years, SD = 1.37) in Shanghai, Peo...

Mastering Shyness

Measuring shyness: analysis of the Revised Cheek and Buss Shyness scale

A sample of 741 university students completed the Revised Cheek and Buss Shyness scale. Item analysis showed that the scale has sound psychometric properties. There was no gender difference in total shyness scores although there were differences on two of the 14 items. A series of confirmatory factor analyses tested the fit of several models of the factor structure of the scale and showed that ...

the relationship between classroom psychosocial climate and shyness with academic performance among students

objectives: the aim of current research was the investigation of the role of classroom social psychosocial climate and shyness with academic performance of students. method: for this purpose, 370 students of third grade high schools of sabzevar city in iran, selected by clustering random sampling, and all of them filled the timidness and class social psychosocial climate questionnaires. results...