INCIHUSA   20883
INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS, SOCIALES Y AMBIENTALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
¿A qué atribuyen los niños y niñas el retraimiento social? Un estudio transcultural entre Mendoza-Argentina y Ottawa-Canadá
Autor/es:
ISON, MIRTA SUSANA; GRECO, CAROLINA; COPLAN, ROBERT
Lugar:
Mendoza
Reunión:
Jornada; DECIMOQUINTAS JORNADAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DEL ACONCAGUA Y NOVENO ENCUENTRO DEL INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES; 2017
Institución organizadora:
Consejo de Investigaciones de la Universidad del Aconcagua (CIUDA)
Resumen:
The aim of this research is explore and compare the preschool children?s attributions about unsociability and shyness in different cultural contexts: Argentina and Canada. To our knowledge, no research has considered social withdrawal in Latin American cultures and its comparisons to another one. Social withdrawal refers to the process whereby children remove themselves from opportunities for social interactions with peers. It is an umbrella term that describes many behavioural subtypes derived from different internal motivations to the child. One internal reason concerns aspects related to fear and anxiety in the face of social novelty and perceived social-evaluation. This construct has been conceptualized as shyness. Other internal motivation involves a nonfearful preference for solitary activities and a disinterest in social interactions. It has been referred as unsociability or preference for solitude (Coplan et al., 2013; Coplan, Ooi, & Nocita, 2015; Coplan & Rubin, 2010; Rubin, Coplan, & Bowker, 2009).This is a theorist classification, however it has been found that young children are able to perceive these differences between shyness and preference for solitude and they can refer a motivational distinction (Coplan, Girardi, Findlay, & Frohlick, 2007; Galanaki, 2004, 2013).However, while the forms of behavior that show children may appear similar in different contexts, the same behavior can be interpreted in particular ways depending on the environment raising different levels of consequences throughout the development (Rubin & Menzer, 2010). Previous studies suggest that shyness and unsociability have dissimilar meanings and implications in different societies (Chen, Rubin, & Sun, 1992; Chen & French, 2008; Coplan, Zheng, Weeks, & Chen, 2012; Liu et al., 2015; Pines & Zimbardo, 1978; Stockli, 2002). It will be taken into account the Bioecological Theory of Human Development (Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 2006) in order to interpret the results of this study.