期刊
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
卷 24, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/desc.13118
关键词
gaze aversion; respiratory sinus arrhythmia; shyness; social threat; temperament
资金
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- American Psychological Foundation
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Society for Research in Child Development
Research on temperamental shyness in children shows inconsistent findings regarding attentional patterns to social threat, with evidence for both avoidance and vigilance. The proportion of gaze aversion from social novelty was related to shyness in a U-shape pattern, where both low and high levels of gaze aversion were associated with higher levels of shyness. These gaze strategies may be differentially related to physiological regulation during novel social encounters.
Temperamental shyness is characterized by fear, wariness, and the perception of threat in response to social novelty. Previous work has been inconsistent regarding attentional patterns to social threat among shy children, with evidence for both avoidance and vigilance. We examined relations between children's shyness and gaze aversion during the approach of a stranger (i.e., a context of social novelty), and tested whether these patterns of gaze moderated relations between shyness and autonomic reactivity and recovery. Participants included 152 typically-developing children (M-age = 7.82 years, SD = 0.44 years) who had their respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) recorded during baseline, social novelty, and recovery. Children's shyness correlated with increases in self-reported nervousness from baseline to social novelty, providing support for perceived threat. Results revealed that children's proportion of gaze aversion from social novelty was related to shyness in a U-shape pattern such that both low levels of gaze aversion (i.e., attentional vigilance) and high levels of gaze aversion (i.e., attentional avoidance) were related to higher levels of shyness. Further, we found that children's shyness was directly related to decreases in RSA from baseline to social novelty, whereas quadratic gaze to social novelty moderated the relation between shyness and RSA recovery. Specifically, shyness was related to greater RSA recovery among children who exhibited attentional vigilance during the novel social interaction. Our findings provide support for both avoidance of, and vigilance to, social threat among different shy children, and these gaze strategies may be differentially related to physiological regulation during novel social encounters.
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