A Correlative Study On Shyness Of Children

Shyness is always described to a kind of personality characteristic, a kind of social intercourse attitude or a kind of repress appearance. Henderson defined shyness that is discomfort and/repression in the social intercourse situation, Is a kind of fear to negative evaluate and shyness will greatly influence participate behaviors to expectant activity or pursue behaviors to the individual and the occupation target company with upset or repression. Proper and specific-to-situation shyness is a normal reaction, but over-shyness and generalized shyness maybe influence one's learn, behaviors, every day life and the healthy. In recent years, western psychologists studied one's shyness, and found it is associated with recognition, emotion and perceived competence in interpersonal situations. The Trans-Culture research find that the proportion of the shyness which occupies in various countries and the local crowd is as follows: Israel is low, is 31%; Japan is high, 57%; Taiwan is also high, is 55%; Mexico, Germany, India and so on and the US are similar, about 40%, the shyness level is obviously high in the Asian country. Silence also regards as elementary school's gold law, the ideal elementary student should be peaceful, not tenacious, intelligent, but is not precocious. Shy child is peaceful. They don't start trouble, will not have the aggressive behavior, and will not encroach upon other people, which will make the shy question to be very easy to neglect. So, shyness individuals frequently have less assertive when talking with others, underestimate their own ability to cope with social situations and feel more negative emotions. On the basis of this, we will discuss how factors such as loneliness, peer acceptance, self-perceived social competence affect the shyness of children on the basis of previous studies. The part of the empirical study is a questionnaire survey from 684 children of non quake-hit areas and quake-hit areas , the results are as follows:1. Analysis to dependable variable dealt with demography variable shows that: In the dimensions of shyness, shy cognition and shy mood, the scores of female student are significant higher than the scores of male student, but in shy behavior, male and female scores have not remarkable difference; the scores of urban student are significant lower than the village student, the scores of shy behavior, the shy cognition and the shy mood are significant lower than the village student; In the dimensions of shyness, shy behavior, shy cognition and shy mood, the scores of quake-hit areas are significant higher than the scores of non quake-hit areas.2. In non quake-hit areas, shyness is positively related to loneliness, negatively related to peer acceptance, loneliness is negatively related to peer acceptance, shy behavior, shy cognition and shy mood are positively related to loneliness, shy behavior and shy mood are negatively related to peer acceptance, self-perceived social competence is not related to loneliness, peer acceptance and shyness; in quake-hit areas, shyness is positively related to loneliness, self-perceived social competence, loneliness is negatively related to peer acceptance, positively related to self-perceived social competence.3. In non quake-hit areas, peer acceptance significantly mediates between loneliness and shyness, self-perceived social competence moderates the relation of loneliness to shyness; in quake-hit areas, peer acceptance moderates the relation of loneliness to shyness,self-perceived social competence moderates the relation of loneliness to shyness.