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Shyness: Anxious Social Sensitivity and Self-Isolating Tendency.

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Ishiyama, F. Ishu – Adolescence, 1984

Used self-ratings to compare 96 shy and nonshy tenth-grade students. The shy group reported significantly more negative self-ratings on loneliness, interference of shyness with academic success and friendships, shyness around the opposite sex, and belief in the noticeability of shyness. There were no significant group differences in self-liking.…

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools

Social Adjustment and Symptomatology in Two Types of Homeless Adolescents: Runaways and Throwaways.

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Hier, Sally J.; And Others – Adolescence, 1990

Compared 52 homeless male and female runaways and throwaways for social adjustment and symptomatology. Found that male runaways were significantly more hostile than male throwaways and significantly more socially isolated than female runaways. Female throwaways were significantly more hostile than male throwaways and female runaways. Homeless…

Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Depression (Psychology)