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Behavioural correlates of social anxiety
Author(s) -
Daly Sandra
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1978.tb00252.x
Subject(s) - psychology , active listening , eye contact , anxiety , gaze , developmental psychology , duration (music) , social anxiety , audiology , communication , psychiatry , psychoanalysis , medicine , art , literature
High school students' scores on a paper‐and‐pencil test of social anxiety were correlated with talking, eye contact and gesturing behaviours during a 10‐min videotaped interview. Results showed that high anxious subjects talked less while listening to instructions. They also held the gaze for less total time and in bouts of shorter duration while they were talking; while they were listening, they were significantly more variable in their average bout duration. Within‐group variability suggested that non‐verbal behaviour should be analysed according to individual rather than group differences.