“…Shy people were found to have less social support and limited friendship networks (Jones and Carpenter, 1986), had difficulties establishing satisfying relationships, and report poor friendship quality (Asendorpf, 2000). Research suggests that shyness was associated with emotional problems, feeling lonely, anxiety, social helplessness, distraction, and neuroticism (Bian and Leung, 2015; Ebeling-Witte et al, 2007; Sato et al., 2018; Zee and Roorda, 2018). Shyness was also found correlated with social anxiety, positive affect, and negative affect (Findlay et al, 2009).…”