Anxious Solitude and Peer Exclusion Predict Social Helplessness, Upset Affect, and Vagal Regulation in Response to Behavioral Rejection by a Friend

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1077-1096

  Gazelle, Heidi ^a   Druhen, Madelynn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

affect; emotion regulation; exclusion; peer rejection; social withdrawal shyness social anxiety

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; FEMALE; FRIEND; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEER GROUP; PHOBIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIALIZATION; SOCIOMETRIC STATUS; VAGUS NERVE;

AFFECT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; CHILD; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HEART RATE; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HUMANS; MALE; PEER GROUP; PHOBIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SHYNESS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIALIZATION; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 67651083750     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016165     Document Type: Article

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