Social Withdrawal, inhibition, and Shyness in Childhood

Kenneth H. Rubin, Jens B. Asendorpf

• Contents: Part I:Conceptual and Methodological Issues: An Overview.K.H. Rubin, J.B. Asendorpf, Social Withdrawal, Inhibition, and Shyness in Childhood: Conceptual and Definitional Issues. J. Kagan, N. Snidman, D. Arcus, On the Temperamental Categories of Inhibited and Uninhibited Children. Part II:Biological and Familial Factors: Independent and Interdependent Contributions.R.J. Davidson, Childhood Temperament and Cerebral Asymmetry: A Neurobiological Substrate of Behavioral Inhibition. A. Engfer, Antecedents and Consequences of Shyness in Boys and Girls: A 6-Year Longitudinal Study. N.A. Fox, S.D. Calkins, Pathways to Aggression and Social Withdrawal: Interactions Among Temperament, Attachment, and Regulation. J. Stevenson-Hinde, A. Shouldice, Wariness to Strangers: A Behavior Systems Perspective Revisited. R.S.L. Mills, K.H. Rubin, Socialization Factors in the Development of Social Withdrawal. Part III:Social Behaviors, Skills, and Relationships.A.G. Broberg, Inhibition and Children's Experiences of Out-of-Home Care. M. Rezendes, N. Snidman, J. Kagan, J. Gibbons, Features of Speech in Inhibited and Uninhibited Children. M.A. Evans, Communicative Competence as a Dimension of Shyness. Part IV:Peer and Self Perceptions.A. Younger, C. Gentile, K. Burgess, Children's Perceptions of Social Withdrawal: Changes Across Age. S. Hymel, E. Woody, A. Bowker, Social Withdrawal in Childhood: Considering the Child's Perspective. Part V:Longitudinal Perspectives on Social Withdrawal and Inhibition.J.B. Asendorpf, Beyond Temperament: A Two-Factorial Coping Model of the Development of Inhibition During Childhood. K.H. Rubin, The Waterloo Longitudinal Project: Correlates and Consequences of Social Withdrawal from Childhood to Adolescence. D. Olweus, Victimization by Peers: Antecedents and Long-Term Outcomes.

"This book is the first of its kind and, in many respects, a major force in defining an emergent area of inquiry within the field of child psychology....Rubin and Asendorpf have assembled a volume that receives high marks for scholarship. They do an excellent job of introducing the book's major aims and organizing the theoretical and empirical contributions. The result is a book that not only covers a great deal of new territory but also succeeds at consolidating a seemingly diverse array of research programs and agendas....it is a book that offers authoritative perspectives and comprehensive coverage of an important domain."—Contemporary Psychology