Friday 19 December 2014

Behavioral Inhibition During Infancy Linked to Adolescent Social Anxiety

Behavioral inhibition that persists across early childhood is associated with social anxiety in adolescence, but only among youth who were insecurely attached to their parents as infants, according to researchers at the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Mental Health and the University of Waterloo. Infants who react to unfamiliar objects, people and situations by becoming afraid and withdrawing are referred to as having a behaviorally inhibited temperament. ...

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