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Improving the measurement of environmental sensitivity in children and adolescents : the highly sensitive child scale-21 item version

Sofie Weyn, Karla Van Leeuwen, Michael Pluess, Francesca Lionetti, Luc Goossens, Guy Bosmans, Wim van den Noortgate, Dries Debeer (UGent) , Anne Sophie Brohl and Patricia Bijttebier
(2022) ASSESSMENT. 29(4). p.607-629
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Children differ in their sensitivity to positive and negative environmental influences, which can be measured with the Highly Sensitive Child (HSC) scale. The present study introduces the HSC-21, an adaptation of the original 12 item scale with new items and factor structure that are meant to be more informative than the original ones. The psychometric properties of the HSC-21 were investigated in 1,088 children across Belgium and the Netherlands, including child and mother reports. Results showed evidence for (a) bifactor model with a general sensitivity factor and two specific factors (i.e., Ease of Excitation-Low Sensory Threshold and Aesthetic Sensitivity); (b) (partial) measurement invariance across gender, developmental stage, country, and informants; (c) moderate child-mother agreement; (d) good reliability; (e) normally distributed item scores; and (f) meaningful associations with personality and temperament across both samples. No evidence was found for HSC-21 as a moderator in the relationship between parenting and problem behaviors.
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SENSORY-PROCESSING SENSITIVITY, DIFFERENTIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY, FIT, INDEXES, MODEL, PERSONALITY, DEPRESSION, STRESS, ALPHA, environmental sensitivity, sensory processing sensitivity, children, early adolescents, psychometric properties, multi-informants

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Weyn, Sofie, et al. “Improving the Measurement of Environmental Sensitivity in Children and Adolescents : The Highly Sensitive Child Scale-21 Item Version.” ASSESSMENT, vol. 29, no. 4, 2022, pp. 607–29, doi:10.1177/1073191120983894.
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Weyn, S., Van Leeuwen, K., Pluess, M., Lionetti, F., Goossens, L., Bosmans, G., … Bijttebier, P. (2022). Improving the measurement of environmental sensitivity in children and adolescents : the highly sensitive child scale-21 item version. ASSESSMENT, 29(4), 607–629. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191120983894
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Weyn, Sofie, Karla Van Leeuwen, Michael Pluess, Francesca Lionetti, Luc Goossens, Guy Bosmans, Wim van den Noortgate, Dries Debeer, Anne Sophie Brohl, and Patricia Bijttebier. 2022. “Improving the Measurement of Environmental Sensitivity in Children and Adolescents : The Highly Sensitive Child Scale-21 Item Version.” ASSESSMENT 29 (4): 607–29. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191120983894.
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Weyn, Sofie, Karla Van Leeuwen, Michael Pluess, Francesca Lionetti, Luc Goossens, Guy Bosmans, Wim van den Noortgate, Dries Debeer, Anne Sophie Brohl, and Patricia Bijttebier. 2022. “Improving the Measurement of Environmental Sensitivity in Children and Adolescents : The Highly Sensitive Child Scale-21 Item Version.” ASSESSMENT 29 (4): 607–629. doi:10.1177/1073191120983894.
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Weyn S, Van Leeuwen K, Pluess M, Lionetti F, Goossens L, Bosmans G, et al. Improving the measurement of environmental sensitivity in children and adolescents : the highly sensitive child scale-21 item version. ASSESSMENT. 2022;29(4):607–29.
IEEE
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S. Weyn et al., “Improving the measurement of environmental sensitivity in children and adolescents : the highly sensitive child scale-21 item version,” ASSESSMENT, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 607–629, 2022.
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