ABSTRACT
Almost a quarter century ago, Singer (1973) drew connections between make-believe play in young children and the later development of daydreaming, fantasy life, and introversion. Singer also described the processes in consciousness that characterize this dimension of personality. He described one of the aspects of introversion as taking pleasure in selfawareness and another aspect as fear of social situations. Implicit in this theorizing are connections between emotions, self-consciousness, and personality. This was well before research from three-and fivefactor models of personality provided strong empirical support for the existence of extroversion-introversion as a stable trait of the individual.
