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‘I’d rather not bring any attention to myself’: shyness and belonging(s) during the first-year university experience

Stahl, Garth, McDonald, Sarah·2024·Research in Post-Compulsory Education
DOI 10.1080/13596748.2023.2285629
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The first year of university can be a vulnerable time, especially for students who describe themselves as shy and who may be reluctant to engage socially. Shyness, which can be closely aligned with social anxiety, often reduces opportunities for students to belong. This paper presents the experiences of two students negotiating experiences of shyness and belonging during their first year at university. Scholars have focused on how young people negotiate belonging(s) in multiple spaces. These negotiations provide insights into complex, varied and multi-faceted relationships which contribute to the lives of young people and which are integral to their identity development. The paper foregrounds four common trends in scholarship on belonging (space/place, memory/nostalgia, temporality and relationships) to structure the analysis of positionality, shyness and intersubjectivity during a transitional time. How both these students come to belong in reference to everyday social practices complicates a psychological or disability-studies approach to the study of shyness and provides insight into the realities of student experience, personal hardship and familial responsibility.

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Authors
Stahl, G., & McDonald, S.
Affiliations
  • The University of Queensland (AU)
  • University of South Australia (AU)
Corresponding author
Stahl, Garth
ORCID
Venue
Research in Post-Compulsory Education
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2024-01-02
Volume
29
Issue
1
Pages
45-63
ISSN
  • 1359-6748 (ISSN-L)
  • 1747-5112
DOI
10.1080/13596748.2023.2285629
OpenAlex
W4391101765
Cited by
3
References
41
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2024: 1
FWCI
3.83
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Research in Post-Compulsory Education (publishedVersion)
  • Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) (submittedVersion)
Funders
University of South Australia
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education Research Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Student Stress and Coping
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Keywords
shyness, sense of belonging, first-year students, social anxiety, student transition, identity construction, positionality, intersubjectivity, social practices, memory and nostalgia, temporality, student hardship

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