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Advancing the Measurement of Environmental Sensitivity Across Different Countries, Developmental Periods, and Contexts
Fri, April 9, 10:00 to 11:30am EDT (10:00 to 11:30am EDT), VirtualSession Type: Paper Symposium
Abstract
The concept of Environmental Sensitivity (ES) refers to individual differences in response to environmental influences, with a significant minority of the general population being more sensitive to experiences (Pluess et al., 2018, Lionetti et al., 2018). Markers of ES have been proposed at different levels of analysis (Greven et al., 2019), but only the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and Child (HSC) scales assess sensitivity more directly. Although these scales have been validated in empirical and experimental studies they suffer from several limitations. The current symposium includes three papers who aim to advance the assessment of ES by overcoming current limitations. The first paper introduces a new self-report measure, building on the existing HSP scale (Aron & Aron, 1997). The new sensitivity measure was tested in a large sample of 10,000 adults in the Netherlands. The second paper introduces an extended version of the HSC scale (Pluess et al., 2018), tested in large sample of young adolescents in Belgium. The third paper presents a newly developed teacher-rated sensitivity scale for children in primary school, which is currently being used in a longitudinal study in Switzerland and Italy. The newly developed measures presented in this symposium show acceptable to strong psychometric properties and items appear to represent direct phenotypical markers of increased sensitivity to stimuli in different contexts and across different ages. Implications for the advancement of the measurement of Environmental Sensitivity across developmental periods and countries are discussed.
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Individual Presentations
Development and Validation of the Sensory Processing Sensitivity Questionnaire (SPSQ) - Presenting Author: Véronique de Gucht, Leiden University
The HSC-24: A Psychometrically Adequate Measure of Environmental Sensitivity Across Belgium and the Netherlands and Across Child and Mother Report - Presenting Author: Sofie Weyn, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven); Non-Presenting Author: Karla Van Leeuwen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Non-Presenting Author: Michael Pluess, Queen Mary University of London; Non-Presenting Author: Francesca Lionetti, G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara and Queen Mary University of London; Non-Presenting Author: Luc G. Goossens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven); Non-Presenting Author: Guy Bosmans, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven); Non-Presenting Author: Wim Van Den Noortgate, KU Leuven; Non-Presenting Author: Anne Sophie Bröhl, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Non-Presenting Author: Patricia Bijttebier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)
The Highly Sensitive Child Scale-Teacher-Report Version: Development of a new Measure for Sensitivity in Primary School Children - Presenting Author: Francesca Lionetti, G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara and Queen Mary University of London; Non-Presenting Author: Luciana Castelli, SUPSI University; Non-Presenting Author: Michele Egloff, SUPSI University; Non-Presenting Author: Alina Vanini, SUPSI University; Non-Presenting Author: Jenni Elise kahkonen, Queen Mary University of London; Non-Presenting Author: Antonio Dellagiulia, Salesian University of Rome; Non-Presenting Author: Giulia Prudentino, Salesian University of Rome; Non-Presenting Author: Michael Pluess, Queen Mary University of London