Personality Effects on Children’s Speech in Everyday Life: Sociability-Mediated Exposure and Shyness-Mediated Reactivity to Social Situations
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In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 64, No. 6, 06.1993, p. 1072-1083.
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T1 - Personality Effects on Children’s Speech in Everyday Life
T2 - Sociability-Mediated Exposure and Shyness-Mediated Reactivity to Social Situations
AU - Asendorpf, Jens B.
AU - Meier, Gerd
PY - 1993/6
Y1 - 1993/6
N2 - Speech and heart rate were continuously monitored during 7 days from morning to evening in 41 Grade 2 children selected for high or low parental judgments of sociability and shyness. Children attended school in the mornings and were free in the afternoons; the child's social situations in the afternoon were reconstructed with the child and a caretaker. During the afternoons sociable children spent more time in conversations than unsociable children, but the groups did not differ in their verbal participation within conversations. Shy children spent as much time in conversations and spoke as much in familiar situations as nonshy children but spoke less in moderately unfamiliar situations. Neither sociability nor shyness had an effect on heart rate reactivity. The results show that sociability affects the exposure, and shyness the reactivity, to situations and that these traits are clearly distinct despite some similarity in lay judgments of personality.
AB - Speech and heart rate were continuously monitored during 7 days from morning to evening in 41 Grade 2 children selected for high or low parental judgments of sociability and shyness. Children attended school in the mornings and were free in the afternoons; the child's social situations in the afternoon were reconstructed with the child and a caretaker. During the afternoons sociable children spent more time in conversations than unsociable children, but the groups did not differ in their verbal participation within conversations. Shy children spent as much time in conversations and spoke as much in familiar situations as nonshy children but spoke less in moderately unfamiliar situations. Neither sociability nor shyness had an effect on heart rate reactivity. The results show that sociability affects the exposure, and shyness the reactivity, to situations and that these traits are clearly distinct despite some similarity in lay judgments of personality.
KW - Business psychology
KW - Child
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Personality Assessment
KW - Personality Development
KW - Shyness
KW - Social Behavior
KW - Social Environment
KW - Verbal Behavior
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0027618375&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1037/0022-3514.64.6.1072
DO - 10.1037/0022-3514.64.6.1072
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 8326470
VL - 64
SP - 1072
EP - 1083
JO - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
SN - 0022-3514
IS - 6
ER -