儿童害羞的世代趋势:COVID-19是否重要?
Louis A Schmidt1, Christina A Brook2, Raha Hassan3
1Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4K1, Canada. schmidtl@mcmaster.ca.
Child psychiatry and human development
|June 26, 2025
概括
孩子 孩子 孩子 孩子
科学领域:
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
背景情况:
- 幼儿时代的害羞预测了以后的内化问题.
- 影响儿童害羞的社会文化和历史因素尚未得到充分理解.
研究的目的:
- 检查儿童害羞的世代和时期差异.
- 为了调查COVID-19大流行对童年害羞的影响.
主要方法:
- 准实验性设计使用三组 (N=648) 类似年龄的儿童.
- 从Z世代 (1999-2000年) 和Alpha世代 (2018-2019年流行前和2021年流行中期) 收集的父母报告的害羞数据.
- 在大流行前的一组儿童中使用的行为害羞度指标.
主要成果:
- 阿尔法一代的队伍表现出比Z一代更低的害羞程度,而不考虑与大流行有关的社会限制.
- 在疫情前和疫情中期的阿尔法一代队伍之间,害羞程度没有显著差异.
- 行为数据证实了家长的报告,显示阿尔法一代的害羞程度较低,与Z一代相比.
结论:
- 童年害羞的世代差异似乎受到长期社会文化因素的影响,而不是COVID-19大流行等急性事件.
- 儿童的害羞程度可能会在几代人之间下降.
- COVID-19大流行并没有显著增加阿尔法一代儿童的害羞程度.
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