Open AccessEffect of type of schooling and gender on sociability and shyness among students
Author(s) -
Arvind Kumar Singh,
Rajbir Singh
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/ipj.ipj_25_14
Subject(s) - shyness , psychology , personality , developmental psychology , government (linguistics) , preference , social psychology , anxiety , linguistics , philosophy , psychiatry , economics , microeconomics
Sociability and shyness are orthogonal personality traits, wherein both are characterized by varying behavioral and psychophysiological correlates. Shyness should not be equated with the lack of sociability, as shyness relates to discomfort that occurs in the presence of others and sociability is identified with an individual's preference for being with others rather than alone.