| The central purpose of this dissertation is to update and introduce additional contributions in two relatively ignored, but important, areas of shyness. The first area is the connection between social shyness and how college-aged offspring perceive relationships with the same gendered parent. Secondly, social shyness is compared between residential and commuter students. One hundred eighty six full time, day division students from a small liberal arts college were used to test two hypotheses. Firstly, it was predicted that shyer college students would perceive a less accepting relationship with the same-sex parent. Secondly, it was predicted that commuter students would report being significantly socially shyer than their residential peers. Although both hypotheses were unfounded, further investigation indicated two paternally related findings. Firstly, a preliminary trend was noted in that shy males hold a certain degree of pervasive anger toward fathers, while starting to relate to their fathers as they become older. Further analysis also found that as females report increasing amounts of social shyness, paternal relationships are perceived more negatively. Future research may wish to examine the implications of negatively perceived paternal relationships and its impact on shyness. |
