Today, I offer two studies of shyness that seem to me to have quite similar implications. First, Bekkhus, McVarnock, Coplan, Ulset & Kraft (2023) published “Developmental Changes in the Structure of Shyness and Internalizing Symptoms from Early to Middle Childhood: A network analysis” in Child Development. Here’s the abstract:

Increasingly, COVID research has focused on specific challenges. Here, I present information about four studies of its effects. First, we look at effects of COVID during the early years of the pandemic. First, Delagneau, Twilhaar, Testa, van Veen & Anderson (2022) published “Association Between Prenatal Maternal Anxiety and/or Stress and Offspring's Cognitive Functioning: A meta-analysis” in Child Development. Here are edited parts of the article:

I am presenting three more studies related to the COVID-19 pandemic. First, Howell et al (2022) published “The Role of Uncertainty, Worry, and Control in well-being: Evidence from the COVID-19 outbreak and pandemic in U.S. and China” in Emotion. Here’s the abstract:

Several recent studies focus on adverse impacts of the pandemic on particular subpopulations. In the first, Mitchell, Banyard, Ybarra & Dunsiger (2022) published “Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Youth with a History of Exposure to Self-directed Violence” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.