Study On Relationship Research Between Shyness And Explanatory Style Of College Students

The domestic and foreign research indicated that, shyness is a commonly mental state of people experienced in the interpersonal relationships, and the proportion of shyness in the population has increased year by year. Henderson (1999) refers that shyness is a uncomfortable and/or inhibition in social situations, is a kind of negative assessment of the fear, accompanied by upset or inhibited, will significantly affect the desired activity participation behavior or the individual and the occupation target pursuit behavior. Almost all people had shy experience, as long as the appropriate level of shyness and targeted to specific situations, it can be regarded as a normal reaction; but over-shyness and generalized shyness, it will seriously affect the individual’s learning, life and work, bring individual endless pain, and prevent individual potential development and future development. Cross cultural study found, Asians shyness phenomenon more generally. In the face of the increasingly competitive society, shyness is becoming a bottleneck of person’s development, so it is necessary to conduct in-depth study of shyness.The study conduct in the context of Chinese culture. First, reviewing domestic and foreign shyness studies, and then through the questionnaire to investigate the characteristics of Chinese college students and explore the relationship between shyness and explanatory style. To explain results based on shyness theory and explanatory style theory, in order to enrich the shyness research results and provide reference for shyness psychological intervention study. This article contains two empirical study:First, Cheek&Buss Shyness Scale was revised by questionnaire survey using undergraduates. Then employed Shyness Scale revised edition and explanatory style questionnaire of college students revised by Wen Juanjuan to investigate the relationship between them.The main conclusions of the study are as follows:First, shyness in the population statistical difference in performance of college students:there was no significant difference of gender; in the grade difference in performance for the grade one and grade two have significant differences (p=0.002<0.05), other grades have no significant difference in age; the difference on the age appear between18&19years (p=0.047<0.05) and18years&21years (p=0.026<0.05), and there was no significant difference between the other age; in whether the only child and family economic status has no significant difference.Second, different grades and family economic status students explanatory style showed no significant difference between male and female students, only the explanatory style have significant differences (p=0.000<0.001), girls scored higher than boys, overall girls’explanatory style is more optimistic than boys.Third, shyness and explanatory style has significant negative correlation (p=0.002<0.01). That one has taller degree shyness will have more pessimistic explanatory style. The result indicate high level shyness people tend to attribute interpersonal communication failure to internal, stable and common cause, attributing the success to external, unstable and special reason. Failure is due to the lack of interpersonal skills, and this situation will continue, and affects all aspects of life. While success is because of occasional luck or other reasons, this success is only temporary, and just this aspect success. This interpretation is not conducive to the establishment of style of individual interpersonal confidence, causing further shyness. But this relevant do not represent a causal relationship, between shyness and explanatory style must also exist some intermediary factors, such as self evaluation, self-esteem, parental rearing style and so on.Fourth, explanatory style on college students had significant predictive effect(p=0.003<0.01). The college students with an optimistic explanatory style of have a relatively low shyness level, and college students with a pessimistic explanatory style have a higher degree of shyness.