Problematic Internet use (PIU) creates psychological, social, school and/or work difficulties in a person's life. This study examined the unique roles of four dimensions of temperament (effortful control, sensation seeking, anger/frustration, and shyness) on adolescent PIU, as well as the mediating role of deviant peer affiliation (DPA) on these pathways. Participants were 2758 Chinese adolesce...

The aim of this study is to examine the serial mediating roles shyness, interaction anxiety, and true self-perception on internet in relationship between self-esteem phubbing. A total 646 people, including 391 women (60.5%) 255 men (39.5%), participated study. ages participants ranged from 18 45 (mean= 28.11, SD= 8.25) data research were collected with Self-Esteem Scale, Interaction Anxiety Gen...

This report presents an ideal case of a girl with Fragile X syndrome. There is positive family history of the same condition. The analysis revealed low average IQ with attention deficit, shyness, and social withdrawal. The report shows that girls with Fragile X might have only mild cognitive deficits that enable them to adapt and succeed in society.

Cholecalciferol is an acute (single-feeding) and/or chronic (multiple-feeding) rodenticide toxicant with unique activity for controlling commensal rodents including anticoagulant-resistant rats. Cholecalciferol differs from conventional acute rodenticides in that no bait shyness is associated with consumption and time to death is delayed, with first dead rodents appearing 3-4 days after treatment.

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to characterize the development of BPD symptoms across adolescence by evaluating the fit of several latent variable growth models to annual assessments of symptoms obtained from girls when they were ages 14 through 19 years. After determining the best fitting model, we examined prospective associations between the temperament dimensions of emotionality, ...

Temperament, defined as behavioral style, can influence children’s response to adverse events, and may affect both their perception of and response to pain. Previous studies have explored the influences temperament has on pain management, documenting that children with more active, outgoing temperaments report higher levels of pain and receive more analgesics. However, the relationship between ...

In school, shyness is associated with psychosocial difficulties and has negative impacts on children’s academic performance wellbeing. Even though there are different strategies interventions to help children deal shyness, currently no comprehensive systematic review of available interventions. This meta-analysis aim identify for shy evaluate the effectiveness in reducing other impacts. The met...

The study of various general orientations toward communication has held an important place in communication research for over a half-century. This research has been conducted under a wide variety of conceptualizations. These have included stage fright, speech anxiety, communication apprehension, shyness, reticence, unwillingness to communicate, willingness to communicate, talkativeness, verbal ...