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The British Journal of Psychiatry 174: 439-443 (1999)
© 1999 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Childhood shyness and maternal social phobia: a community study

PJ Cooper and M Eke
Department of Psychology, University of Reading, UK.

BACKGROUND: Family history data suggest the possibility of an association between childhood shyness and parental social phobia. AIMS: To examine the prevalence of maternal affective disorder in a community sample of four-year-old shy and non-shy children. METHOD: By screening 867 children, 43 shy children, 59 children with another form of disturbance (i.e. fearfulness, feeding problem or conduct problem) and 26 children with no disturbance were identified. Interviewers who were unaware of child status used a standardised mental state assessment to determine the rate of affective disorder in the mothers of these children. RESULTS: Compared with the mothers of the children in both comparison groups, the mothers of the children who were purely shy (i.e. shy children with no comorbid condition) had a significantly raised lifetime rate of anxiety disorder in general, and social phobia in particular. The odds ratio of a social phobia in the mothers of the purely shy children was raised over the normal control group by a factor of more than seven. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest a specific association between childhood shyness and maternal social phobia.


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