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.

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