Highly sensitive adolescents: The relationship between weekly life events and weekly socioemotional well‐being

Iimura, Shuhei

doi:10.1111/bjop.12505

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“…Overall, previous recent studies stated the need for the assessment of the level of SPS traits [ 7 ], due to the high prevalence rates of high sensitivity in the general population [ 11 , 54 ]. In fact, researchers pointed out the impact of different levels in SPS on school performance, health and quality of life in children [ 7 , 55 , 56 , 57 ]. Therefore, assessment instruments have a great variety of advantages because they can be administered quickly and easily, reducing time and human costs [ 58 ].…”

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Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Highly Sensitive Child Scale: The Parent Version

Costa-López

Ruiz‐Robledillo

Baryła-Matejczuk

2022

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Environmental sensitivity is the ability to perceive, register and process information about the environment, which differs among children and adolescents. The Highly Sensitive Child (HSC) scale has been used to assess environmental sensitivity in youngsters. The HSC scale is a short and 12-item adapted version of the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) scale. The aim of this pilot study is to transculturally adapt the Highly Sensitive Child (HSC) scale, and to analyze its factorial structure, reliability and validity. First, a transcultural adaptation was conducted by bilingual experts. Second, once the questionnaire was translated, the psychometric properties were analyzed. The Spanish version of the HSC scale was administered to parents answering about information of 141 children between 6 and 10 years old. The Spanish version of the Emotionality, Activity and Sociability Survey (EAS) was also applied. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the three-factor structure of sensitivity in our Spanish sample. This structure included the following dimensions: (1) Ease of Excitation (EOE), (2) Low Sensory Threshold (LST), and (3) Aesthetic Sensitivity (AES). Moreover, both Cronbach’s α and McDonald’s ω values indicated that the Spanish version of the HSC scale was a reliable measure of environmental sensitivity, as a general factor of sensitivity (α = 0.84), and even in its three dimensions: EOE (α = 0.86), LST (α = 0.77) and AES (α = 0.73). Finally, the correlations for convergent validity showed positive associations, especially among the three dimensions of SPS and Emotionality (EOE r = 0.351; LST r = 0.274; AES r = 0.259), which was one of the domains of the EAS survey. The pilot study provided interesting results, which showed a reliable and valid replication of the original structure of sensitivity in the Spanish samples.

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Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Highly Sensitive Child Scale: The Parent Version

Costa-López

Ruiz‐Robledillo

Baryła-Matejczuk

2022

IJERPH

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“…Due to their traits, highly sensitive young people are more likely to experience poor mental health in negative environments. For example, recent evidence has shown that compared to less sensitive adolescents, highly sensitive adolescents experience lower socio-emotional wellbeing when the impact of negative life events experienced in the preceding week was significant (Iimura, 2021). Moreover, several cross-sectional studies have reported that high sensoryprocessing sensitivity in adolescents is positively correlated with depressive symptoms and anxiety (Liss et al, 2005;2008).…”

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“…For example, Pluess et al (2010) reported that individuals with the 5-HTTLPR s-allele, a genetic marker of environmental sensitivity, have a higher tendency toward developing the Big Five of neuroticism when they experience negative life events. In addition, Iimura (2021) indicated that when highly sensitive youths have recently experienced positive life events, there is no observable decline in their socio-emotional well-being. The key implication of these findings or theories regarding environmental sensitivity is that highly sensitive youths are not necessarily vulnerable individuals.…”

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Sensory-processing sensitivity and COVID-19 stress in a young population: The mediating role of resilience

Iimura

2022

Personality and Individual Differences

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Psychologists worldwide are becoming increasingly concerned about the negative impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on adolescents' mental health. However, compared to studies involving adults, research using a young population is limited. To further understand the mental health of older adolescents and young adults during the pandemic, the present study examined whether resilience, as a protective factor, buffers the relationship between the personality trait of environmental sensitivity and COVID-19-related distress. In total, 441 older adolescents and young adults (53.7% women, Mage = 18.91 years, SDage = 0.82 years) living in urban Japan completed an online cross-sectional survey in October 2020. The results showed that sensitivity was positively, though weakly, correlated with COVID-19 stress and negatively correlated with resilience. Resilience was negatively correlated with COVID-19 stress. Mediation analysis showed that resilience buffered the negative relationship between sensitivity and COVID-19 stress, and its indirect effect was statistically significant, albeit close to zero. These results suggest that higher sensitivity is not necessarily a vulnerability factor, if resilience can be enhanced.

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“…Second, highly sensitive individuals are more likely to be adversely affected by daily hassles and recent negative life events (e.g., Iimura, 2021). They may also be more prone to develop gastrointestinal disease symptoms due to stressful environmental factors.…”

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Sensory Processing Sensitivity and Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Japanese Adult

Iimura¹,

Takasugi²

2022

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Sensory processing sensitivity is a personality or temperamental trait defined as individual differences in the tendency to perceive and process both positive and negative stimuli and experiences. Studies have shown that high sensitivity is correlated with psychosocial health, including depression and anxiety. However, its relationship with physical health has not been clarified. To fill this gap, this study focused on gastrointestinal disease symptoms as an indicator of physical health and examined their relationship with sensitivity. Participants were 863 Japanese adults (female = 450; male = 413; Mage = 30.4 years; SD = 4.9) who completed a web-based questionnaire. As a result, highly sensitive persons were more likely to report experiencing a wide range of gastrointestinal disease symptoms in the past week, including reflux syndrome, abdominal pain, indigestion syndrome, diarrhea syndrome, and constipation syndrome, even when statistically controlling for the participants’ sociodemographic characteristics. Our findings suggest that high sensory processing sensitivity is not only associated with psychosocial health, but also with physical health. Some of the potential causes of this are also discussed.

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Highly sensitive adolescents: The relationship between weekly life events and weekly socioemotional well‐being

Cited by 28 publications

References 55 publications

Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Highly Sensitive Child Scale: The Parent Version

Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Highly Sensitive Child Scale: The Parent Version

Sensory-processing sensitivity and COVID-19 stress in a young population: The mediating role of resilience

Sensory Processing Sensitivity and Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Japanese Adult

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