title: [Stability of shy-anxious-inhibited behavior in kindergarten children].
abstract: The stability of internalizing disorders was studied over a period of 15 months in a sample of three- to five-year-old children attending preschool (N = 280). Stability coefficients for shyness/inhibition (rT1-T2 = .65/.77), oversensitivity (rT1-T2 = .49/.69) and dependency (rT1-T2 = .43/.64) showed a high to moderate (normative) continuity during this stage of development. There were no sex differences but there were significant age variations: The stability of shyness/inhibition was about twice as high in the oldest cohort as in the youngest age group. Persistence of internalizing behavior dimensions was much stronger in a withdrawn-aggressive group than in a withdrawn-nonaggressive group. Peer status had some predictive utility, but for the sample as a whole there was only a low correlation between sociometric variables (T1) and internalizing scores (T2); the level of correlation was strongly dependent on the children's age and sex.
authors.affiliation: Staatsinstitut für Frühpädagogik und Familienforschung, München.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mayr
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010553:Personality Development; D012792:Shyness
vernacular_title: Zur Stabilität schüchtern-ängstlich-gehemmten Verhaltens bei Kindergartenkindern.