Shy teens and their peers: Shyness in respect to basic personality traits and social relations

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The main purpose of this paper was to examine shyness in teenagers from two perspectives: in terms of its relations with basic personality traits and in terms of its influence on the processes that occur in the social networks of high school students. First, we found that shyness was negatively predicted by extraversion and positively by neuroticism. Second, using exponential random graph models we demonstrated that shyness across network effects was similar to reversed extraversion (introversion): Both negatively predicted the number of outgoing relations, whereas they did not affect the number of incoming relations. We discuss the issue of locating shyness in the space of personality traits, supporting the relevance of ascribing it to introversion.

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Kwiatkowska-Błońska, M., & Rogoza, R. (2018). Shy teens and their peers: Shyness in respect to basic personality traits and social relations. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2019.03.005