This is a specific trait with key consequences that in the past has often been confused with innate shyness, inhibitedness, innate fearfulness, introversion, and so on.
In two studies of people in their early 20s in this month's Pediatrics, researchers found that former preemies were less likely to leave home, live with a romantic partner or be sexually active. They were also more inhibited and more apt to obey social conventions.
Even as social anxiety has become big business for the pharma industry, with billions of dollars of sales of anti-anxiety meds, here is an expert who offers the contrasting view. https://amzn.to/3ppfezD
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