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Sensory processing sensitivity and social pain: a hypothesis and theory

Sensory-processing sensitivity (SPS) defined, as a personality trait, seems to be characterized by emotional sensitivity, and stronger reactivity to both external and internal stimuli. SPS can represent a risk factor for developing clinical conditions during childhood and adolescence. This personali...

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Autores principales: Morellini, Lucia, Izzo, Alessia, Celeghin, Alessia, Palermo, Sara, Morese, Rosalba
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10303917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37388415
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1135440
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author Morellini, Lucia
Izzo, Alessia
Celeghin, Alessia
Palermo, Sara
Morese, Rosalba
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description Sensory-processing sensitivity (SPS) defined, as a personality trait, seems to be characterized by emotional sensitivity, and stronger reactivity to both external and internal stimuli. SPS can represent a risk factor for developing clinical conditions during childhood and adolescence. This personality trait is not to be considered a pathological clinical condition, however, can expose to greater environmental vulnerability. In particular, the recent studies about SPS can be contextualized to social situations that evoke traumatic and stressful emotional responses such as social exclusion. We hypothesize that highly sensitive people (HSP) are more vulnerable to social exclusion and social pain. This hypothesis could help structure new educational and intervention models designed to improve coping strategies and promote HSP’s psychophysical and social well-being.
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spelling pubmed-103039172023-06-29 Sensory processing sensitivity and social pain: a hypothesis and theory Morellini, Lucia Izzo, Alessia Celeghin, Alessia Palermo, Sara Morese, Rosalba Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience Sensory-processing sensitivity (SPS) defined, as a personality trait, seems to be characterized by emotional sensitivity, and stronger reactivity to both external and internal stimuli. SPS can represent a risk factor for developing clinical conditions during childhood and adolescence. This personality trait is not to be considered a pathological clinical condition, however, can expose to greater environmental vulnerability. In particular, the recent studies about SPS can be contextualized to social situations that evoke traumatic and stressful emotional responses such as social exclusion. We hypothesize that highly sensitive people (HSP) are more vulnerable to social exclusion and social pain. This hypothesis could help structure new educational and intervention models designed to improve coping strategies and promote HSP’s psychophysical and social well-being. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10303917/ /pubmed/37388415 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1135440 Text en Copyright © 2023 Morellini, Izzo, Celeghin, Palermo and Morese. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Morellini, Lucia
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Palermo, Sara
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Sensory processing sensitivity and social pain: a hypothesis and theory
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title_short Sensory processing sensitivity and social pain: a hypothesis and theory
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topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10303917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37388415
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1135440
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