Behavioral and psychophysiological correlates of self-presentation in temperamentally shy children

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 119-135

  Schmidt, Louis A ^a   Fox, Nathan A ^b   Schulkin, Jay ^c   Gold, Philip W ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac vagal tone; Children; Frontal EEG activity; Heart rate; Salivary cortisol; Self presentation; Shyness; Startle eyeblink response

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HEART INNERVATION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STARTLE REFLEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VAGUS TONE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; SALIVA; SEX FACTORS; SHYNESS; STARTLE REACTION; TEMPERAMENT; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0032869017     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199909)35:2<119::AID-DEV5>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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