PSYCH 3JJ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Shyness, Developmental Psychology, Longitudinal Study
11 Dec 2019
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One snapshot is not enough; need to monito social development across historical eras. From the journal of personality and social psychology. The average america child in the 1980s reported more anxiety than child psychiatric patients in the 1950s. Concluded that economic factors played little role, but divorce rates, crime rates, etc. Personality development within a generational context: life course outcomes of shy children. Caspi et al. reported that shy children born in the 1920s and 1950s had delayed marriage and parenthood, less stable careers, and lower occupation attainment as adults than other children. Back then major world wars, economic depression, no social media. Decreasing (we think this is the caspi group) Very shy in childhood, not so much as an adult. Decreasing and increasing trajectories overlap in ad, evidence that ad is an important time in determining an increase or decrease in shyness.
