TY - JOUR

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 -