Avoidant Personality Disorder
Avoidant Trait Characteristics
Avoidant Disorder belongs to Cluster C: introversion and fear are prominent.
- Hypersensitivity to rejection
- Fear of novelty, both in actions and in interpersonal relationships
- Fear of failure, disappointment, embarrassment or humiliation
- Socially inhibited, shy and reluctant to confide confidences
- Afraid of speaking in public or being in any way the center of attention
* They feel an intense unconscious desire to be accepted and suffer from the isolation in which they find themselves.
* Prevalence in the general population is 2.4%.
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Source (in Spanish): Wenceslao Vial, Madurez psicológica y espiritual, Palabra.