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Avoidant personality disorder (AvPD), or anxious personality disorder, is a cluster C personality disorder characterized by excessive social anxiety and inhibition, fear of intimacy (despite an intense desire for it), severe feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, and an overreliance on avoidance of feared stimuli (e.g., self-imposed social isolation) as a maladaptive coping method. [1]
"A socially inept person may sometimes struggle with unintentional silence, which can be due to the socially inept person feeling pressured to speak," says Dr. Cashuna (Shun) Huddleston, Ph.D., a ...
Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also known as social phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by a significant amount of fear in one or more social situations causing considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some parts of daily life. [5]: 15 These fears can be triggered by perceived or actual scrutiny from others.
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Dyssemia is a difficulty with receptive and/or expressive nonverbal communication.The word comes from the Greek roots dys (difficulty) and semia (signal). The term was coined by psychologists Marshall Duke and Stephen Nowicki in their 1992 book, Helping The Child Who Doesn't Fit In, to decipher the hidden dimensions of social rejection.
While I will continue to fiercely defend Gen Z against our apparent failings, I must highlight that the reason we lead such socially inept existences compared to our millennial forebears and ...
Social inhibition is the conscious or subconscious avoidance of a situation or social interaction. With a high level of social inhibition, ...
Of course, students aren’t so socially inept that they haven’t taken stock of their shortcomings. In fact, they’re just as worried about settling into working life as their university ...