Shyness

This book is a theoretical and practical guide in the field of social skills and social competence, based on decades of experience gained by the authors as researchers and professionals in psychology. The book was written for students and professionals who are involved in some way improving individuals´ social skills in different contexts, such as clinical, educational, organizational and community settings. The authors present the conceptual foundations, procedures, techniques, strategies and practical guidelines for planning and conducting effective programs aimed to social skills and social competence.
In the first part of the book, key concepts and fundamentals on the area are presented, as well as the basic behavioral classes of social skills and their non-verbal and paralinguistic components. The authors also propose a portfolio for the assessment of clients’ social skills deficits and strengths to thereby define the aims and procedures of interventions.

The second part focuses on guidelines to select and use procedures and techniques for promoting social skills and social competence. The authors present experiential activities that they created in previous interventions and that were tested in their research, showing evidence of effectiveness. Suggestions on how to evaluate participants’ repertoires and how to use these ideas in intervention planning are also described.

Finally, in the third part of the book, the authors go further presenting practical guidelines for planning and conducting programs and sessions to promote social skills and social competence, in either group or individual settings.

SynopsisWhakama is a psychosocial and behavioural construct in the New Zealand Maori which does not have any exact equivalent in Western societies although shame, self-abasement, feeling inferior, inadequate and with self-doubt, shyness, excessive modesty and withdrawal describe some aspects of the concept. It is an important construct in order to understand the interaction of the Maori with each other and with the Caucasian New Zealander, the behaviour of the Maori in cross-cultural settings, and the clinical presentations of some Maori patients. This paper examines some of the meanings of Whakama, its various behavioural manifestations and its possible causes. The clinical relevance to psychiatry is emphasized.Waiho ma te whakama e patu!‘ Leave him alone he is punished by whakama ’ (Maori saying)

We interviewed Philip G. Zimbardo on April 19, 2011, in anticipation of the 40th anniversary of the Stanford Prison Experiment in August 2011. While Zimbardo's name is mentioned often in tandem with the experiment, he has distinguished himself in many other areas within psychology before and after the experiment, beginning with an accomplished early career at New York University in which he took interest in social psychology research on deindividuation. We discussed the Stanford Prison Experiment in the greater context of his varied and illustrious career, including recent pioneering work on heroism, the establishment of The Shyness Clinic at Stanford University, and the iconic Discovering Psychology series. We also addressed his adroit and candid approach to the experiment itself over the years.

CONTEXT: Parental emotional warmth in childhood use to be linked to the subsequent development of self-compassion. Lack of parental emotional warmth on the contrary may be related to later occurrence of some typical transdiagnostic symptoms such as shyness, internalized shame or difficulties in emotion regulation.
METHOD: By means of three questionnaire surveys an attempt has been made to verify the theoretically anticipated connections between parental emotional warmth in childhood (as measured by PBI, EMWSS and s-EMBU), self-compassion (SCS-CZ), shyness (RCBS), internalized shame (ISS) and difficulties in emotional regulation (DERS-SF-CZ).
RESULTS: Surveys 1, 2, and 3 showed moderate correlations between parental emotional warmth and self-compassion (N1=263; PBI, r=0,3; N2=305, EMWSS, r=0,4; N3=440; s-EMBU, r=0,3; p123 < 0,01). Surveys 1, 2, and 3 further showed the following correlations between self-compassion and 1) shyness (r=-0,44, p < 0,01), 2) internalized shame (r=-0,79, p < 0,01) and 3) difficulties in emotional regulation (r=-0,72, p < 0,01).
CONCLUSIONS: Three independent surveys confirmed the link between parental emotional warmth in childhood and self-compassion in adulthood. The surveys further demonstrated that self-compassion probably significantly eliminates some typical transdiagnostic symptoms, namely, shyness, internalized shame and difficulties in emotion regulation.

This paper investigates the relationship between introversion, shyness and loneliness among college students in Malaysia. This article seeks to speak up for introverts in hope to change the negative perception of the public towards introverts. Introversion has its biological causes explained by the differences in brain arousal level and neurotransmitters found in the brains between extroverts and introverts. It is hypothesized that introversion has no significant relationship with shyness and loneliness; and shyness has a positive significant relationship with loneliness. The researcher used the Introversion Scale, Cheek and Buss Shyness, and UCLA Loneliness Scale to obtain data from 110 college students in Malaysia. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22 was used to analyze the descriptive and inferential statistics, reliability, and Pearson Correlation coefficient. Pearson Correlation results showed that introversion is negatively correlated with shyness (r=-.342, p ≤ 0.00) and loneliness (r= -.296, p ≤ 0.02); which is quite different from many past researches. Whereas shyness was found to be positively correlated with loneliness (r= .421, p≤ 0.00), which is consistent with many previous research findings.

This qualitative study investigated the lived experiences of highly sensitive persons (HSPs) to better understand the way they experience careers.  Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is the underlying personality trait and is present in approximately 20 percent of the population, equally distributed across gender and racial lines.  SPS is considered a non-normative personality trait in some Western societies and subcultures.  Thus, many HSPs experience difficulty finding an appropriate match between innate temperament and career.   
This qualitative research perspective employed semi-structured interviews with 35 participants recruited through social media web sites and snowball sampling.  Participants in the study were primarily from the U.S., but also from five foreign countries.  Participants were chosen based on answers to a recruitment questionnaire and Elaine Aron’s HSP Self-Test.  Major findings reveal a complex, interwoven dynamic interplay between nine major themes: (1) empathy, (2) childhood’s influence, (3) self-care, (4) a rich inner life, (5) creativity, (6) high sensation-seeking, (7) the sociological perspective, (8) the experience of work, and (9) the integral being.  The significance of this study is that it is the first of its kind to investigate this topic in a systematic, scientific manner.

Reviews and discusses the distinction between early and late developing shyness and the adolescent peak in self-conscious shyness. [ Cheek, J.M., Carpentieri, A.M., Smith, T.G., Rierdan, J., & Koff, E. (1986). Adolescent shyness. In W.H. Jones, J.M. Cheek, & S.R. Briggs (Eds.), Shyness: Perspectives on research and treatment (pp. 105-115). New York: Plenum. ]

The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between foreign language anxiety, shyness, language learning strategies, speaking scores and academic achievement of university preparatory students learning German. In addition, it was aimed to determine how the independent variables predict the speaking scores and academic achievement. The research sample consisted of 110 students (75 female and 35 males). Three instruments used in the study were: Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale; Strategy Inventory of Language Learning and Shyness Scale. The results of this study revealed that a moderate significant negative relationship (r=-.434) was present between the students' foreign language learning anxiety and academic achievement. Besides, a significant and negative relationship (r=-.290) was found between foreign language anxiety and speaking scores of students. According to the correlation analysis, no significant relationship was identified between shyness, academic achievement and speaking scores of students. According to the analysis, a significant positive relationship was found between the students' language learning strategies and their academic achievements (r= .275). Namely, these data showed that, the level of academic achievement increases as the use of strategy increases. Similarly, shyness and foreign language anxiety show a moderate positive correlation (r= .419). According to these findings, it may be stated that shyness increases as speaking anxiety rises. Besides, it was determined that students' shyness, foreign language anxiety and language learning strategies predicted 26.4 % of their academic achievement. The results indicated that independent variables were positive predictors of students' academic achievement. Finally, suggestions were made for German teachers to reduce the effects of shyness and anxiety in the process of foreign language learning.

Although the Revised Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale (RCBS; Cheek, 1983) is widely used, its psychometric properties largely are unknown. In this investigation, we examined the normative data, factor structure, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and convergent/discriminant validity of the RCBS using a sample of 261 university students. Results provided strong support for the stability of normative data over time, reliability of the measure, and its predicted associations with contemporary measures of shyness, social anxiety, and related constructs. Although support was obtained for a unifactorial conceptualization of shyness, an exploratory factor analysis revealed an alternative 3-factor solution that was supportive of a previously proposed meta-analytic model of shyness (Jones, Briggs, & Smith, 1986) and was consistent with other prominent shyness theories (Buss, 1980; Pilkonis, 1977a, 1977b; Zimbardo, 1977). This factor model was replicable on a holdout sample, and there were some data to support the discriminant validity of factors.

This dissertation proposes an original theoretical perspective on the phenomenology of social
anxiety disorder and related clinical presentations, inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre’s analysis of the
existential predicament of “being-for-others” (“être-pour-autrui”). In Sartre’s phenomenological
ontology, “being-for-others” refers to the persistent awareness of the self as the actual or
potential object of a conscious Other. Sartre posits that to find oneself the object of the Other’s
“look” entails profound changes in the basic conditions of self-experience, broadly characterized
as a diminished sense of the self as freely self-determining, and by extension, a heightened
feeling of vulnerability to the judgments and projects of the Other. It is argued that Sartre’s
conception of the social object position as inherently vulnerable and incapacitating reflects the
anomalous self-experience at the heart of social anxiety pathology. The paper proceeds as
follows: First, the concept of pathological social anxiety is examined from historical,
nosological, and theoretical perspectives, with the aim of distilling a contemporary consensus
definition. Next, the new phenomenological account of social anxiety disorder is presented.
Aspects of Sartre’s analysis of the encounter with the Other are introduced and explicated in
relation to three central features of social anxiety pathology: a sense of powerlessness over the
way one is perceived by others; anticipation of negative evaluation by others; and enactment of
patterns of self-protective interpersonal behavior. Through analysis of both empirical literature
and multiple first-person descriptions of the experience of chronic social anxiety, each of these
pathological features is shown to be rooted in an anomalous experience of the self as bereft of
existential freedom when in the presence of other people. Implications of the theory for the
classification and treatment of social anxiety disorder are considered, along with avenues for
future phenomenological research.

Achieving proportionate levels of accuracy and fluency in oral proficiency seems extremely far-fetched to many adult learners whose enthusiasm to learn through participation in communicative tasks is adversely influenced by aversive affective factors like shyness and communication apprehension (CA). The present correlational study explored Iranian English learners' shyness and CA, and the accuracy and fluency of their task-based performance for any probable association. The research participants comprised a homogenous sample of 50 female learners from a pool of 70 intermediate learners. The revised Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale (RCBS) (Cheek, 1983), and Personal Report of Communication Apprehension-24 (McCroskey, 1982) were employed to measure the participants' shyness and CA. A narrative picture-description task was used to elicit and record the participants' oral performance. Further statistical analyses of the data verified that the group was within the shyness and apprehension range and that these features were negatively correlated with the fluency and accuracy of their speech. The findings underscore the need to help learners overcome these deterrent variables to enhance their disrupted and inaccurate performance. Pedagogical implications will be discussed in the paper.

In this study, an objective, meaningful instrument-the Interpersonal
Perception Task videotape-was used to test hypotheses about the key components of the Self-monitoring Scale (Snyder, 1974, 1987), the Self-consciousness Scale (Fenigstein, Scheier, & Buss, 1975) as well as the Shyness and SociabJity Scale (Cheek & Buss, 1981). Researchers in the area of self-monitoring and self-consciousness have been in heated debate over the validity and usefulness of those constructs (Briggs & Cheek, 1988; Carver & Scheier, 1987; Scheier & Carver, 1981; Wicklund & Gollwitzer, 1987). Results from this study may help clarify the role that self-concept plays in an important social realm, interpersonal perception, by using the Interpersonal Perception Task, an instrument developed for studying nonverbal decoding skill (Archer & Costanzo, 1988).

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 based on a number of orthogonal dimensions. Empirical evidence suggests that distinct subtypes of shyness develop as a result of differences in social approach and social avoidance behaviors. Temperamental shyness is a risk factor for behavioral and affective problems, as well as more severe psychological problems. This article focuses on the phenomenon of shyness by reviewing its subtypes, psychosocial correlates, and efficacious treatment interventions.

This is a biographical profile of Mário Peixoto director of Limite (1931) available at https://www.amazon.com.br/M%C3%A1rio-Peixoto-antes-depois-Limite-ebook/dp/B0937JFD18/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_pt_BR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=mario+peixoto+antes+e+depois+de+limite&qid=1621070601&s=books&sr=1-1

O encanto me despertou para Limite (1931), encanto sempre mantido. Faço um recorte da vida de Mário Peixoto (1908-1992) a partir de sua homossexualidade, muitas vezes dita, mas pouco estudada. Trata-se de uma pesquisa em realização que teve como ponto de partida, em grande parte, material inédito como cartas, os Cadernos Verdes (diário da infância a 1935), Diário da Inglaterra (1927) e depoimentos de mais de setenta pessoas, entre amigos, parentes e contemporâneos de Mário Peixoto. Todo esse material inédito está no Arquivo Mário Peixoto, sendo que os diários só foram recentemente disponibilizados em formato digital.
A proposta seria apenas contribuir para minimizar uma lacuna em nossa bibliografia de uma leitura gay da vida de artistas brasileiros, e dos modernistas, em particular? Seria possível atualizar o passado a partir de um olhar queer não apenas por meio de uma história de representações de LGBTTQIA+ e de dissidências sexuais, mas de sensações? Seria uma experiência homoafetiva que faz o meu corpo estar mais próximo dele do que de tantos outros artistas modernistas que vieram antes e depois? Qual pode ser o interesse dessas pequenas coisas da rotina, ao invés de grandes debates intelectuais e políticos? O que elas podem evocar, fazer viver? Para quem? Começo a viajar pelo passado como em um continente desconhecido, uma cultura outra. Não estou atrás de raízes, mas de passados inventados e conquistados pelos encontros inesperados como num dobrar de esquina, numa mesa compartilhada com estranhos, numa fila qualquer.
Os primeiros resultados da pesquisa submeto aqui a críticas e sugestões. A homossexualidade não é o centro, mas parte importante de sua vida e contribui para a compreensão da vida cultural do Rio de Janeiro, em especial, nos anos 1920 e 1930, tanto pelos encontros intelectuais como afetivos, redefinidores da herança do Modernismo, cujo centenário comemoraremos em breve. Voltar ao Modernismo não significa voltar a valores canônicos e/ou a perspectivas vitoriosas ou emergentes como a Antropofagia ou a busca de uma cultura nacional centrada no popular e mais recentemente nas tradições e marcas afro-ameríndias. Tão longe não chegaremos, contudo, aqui. Só há algumas sugestões desse Modernismo cosmopolita e local, decadente e aristocrático da melancolia ao invés da alegria, da catástrofe ao invés da utopia.

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1-The true meaning of introversion and its influence on happiness We frequently think of introversion as a social problem. The introvert is, in the eyes of many, a shy person who finds it difficult to make friends. Consequently, introversion could be experienced as a disadvantage in the race for happiness or as a difficulty that must be overcome in order to improve our chances of being happy. However, this view on introversion is not only false but also extremely harmful. This idea stems from a noticeable prevalence of extraverts worldwide (extraverts account for approximately 85% of the general population according to some studies) and from a difficulty by extraverts to understand what is different. The defining characteristic of introversion is not the social relationshipbuilding aspect, but a different way of seeing and thinking about the world: a way which assigns more importance to our own thoughts and feelings about the surrounding world than to external stimulation in and of itself. The term " introverted " says it all: " turned inward " , while the extravert is " turned outward. " This entails more reflection about what goes on around us, less impulsiveness and greater control over our responses to stimuli than most people. Ultimately, this results in a life led on a different wavelength from most people and has countless consequences: some negative and some positive. Physiologically, introverts have naturally high cortical arousal compared to extraverts, by general stimulation, and, particularly, by stimulation from conversation or interaction with other people. This means that a smaller influx of information from the external environment causes, in introverts, significant mental and emotional activity. A detail observed in the external environment gives rise to a myriad of thoughts, reasoning, speculation, fantasies, fears and emotions, and can remain with us for a long time. Extraverts, on the other hand, are only minimally aroused. They do not dwell on external phenomena for a long time and they therefore need to quickly seek out more stimulating environments to feel selfactualized. This difference in cortical arousal is what differentiates us most and can be seen throughout our daily lives. Understanding our differences and knowing how to leverage them is essential to find the happiness that we long for. For that purpose it is first necessary to understand that shyness and introversion are not the same. Although sometimes they go hand in hand, being introverted, as we have discussed, means having an introspective attitude. This does not necessarily entail shyness, lack of social skills or social problems. In fact, there are many people who are introverts and lead a perfectly satisfactory social life (according to their own standards) and are not at all shy; in the same way, there are extraverts who are shy and have terrible social lives. Shyness is a problem that can be quite serious and affects both introverts and extraverts. People who are naturally extraverts but are shy suffer much more as a result of their shyness than the introverts who are also shy. This is so because shy extraverts feel the intense desire to interact with other people but they do not dare do it or their attempts to do it are clumsy. This causes frustration, which is significantly diminished in introverted people since their need and desire for

Describes the three-component model of shyness as a personality trait and its implications for relationships and interpersonal styles. Love-shyness, the internet, and cultural differences in shyness are discussed. Cheek, J.M., & Tyson, K.E. (2009). Shyness. In H.T. Reis & S.K. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships (vol. 3, pp. 1489-1492). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Behavioral and cognitive–behavioral strategies, including exposure, social skills training, and peer-mediated approaches, used to treat childhood shyness and related impairments are described. In addition, relevant outcome studies published within the past 20 years are evaluated, and limitations regarding the generalization, maintenance, and social validity of the reported treatment gains are addressed. Although the interventions reviewed have demonstrated short-term merit in ameliorating social and emotional impairments, such as problematic peer relations and internalizing difficulties, there currently is a lack of evidence to support the social validity and long-term generalization and maintenance of such behavioral gains. Thus, recommendations for future research are made, including the need to (a) assess the social validity of treatment outcomes, (b) utilize important socialization agents (e.g., parents, teachers, peers), and (c) conduct prevention research and longitudinal outcome studies.