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Item Response Theory Investigation of Misophonia Auditory Triggers
Misophonia is characterised by a low tolerance for day-to-day sounds, causing intense negative affect. This study conducts an in-depth investigation of 35 misophonia triggers. A sample of 613 individuals who identify as experiencing misophonia and 202 individuals from the general population complete...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8544191/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34698077 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/audiolres11040051 |
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author | Vitoratou, Silia Uglik-Marucha, Nora Hayes, Chloe Erfanian, Mercede Pearson, Oliver Gregory, Jane |
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description | Misophonia is characterised by a low tolerance for day-to-day sounds, causing intense negative affect. This study conducts an in-depth investigation of 35 misophonia triggers. A sample of 613 individuals who identify as experiencing misophonia and 202 individuals from the general population completed self-report measures. Using contemporary psychometric methods, we studied the triggers in terms of internal consistency, stability in time, precision, severity, discrimination ability, and information. Three dimensions of sensitivity were identified, namely, to eating sounds, to nose/throat sounds, and to general environmental sounds. The most informative and discriminative triggers belonged to the eating sounds. Participants identifying with having misophonia had also significantly increased odds to endorse eating sounds as auditory triggers than others. This study highlights the central role of eating sounds in this phenomenon and finds that different triggers are endorsed by those with more severe sound sensitivities than those with low sensitivity. |
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spelling | pubmed-85441912021-10-26 Item Response Theory Investigation of Misophonia Auditory Triggers Vitoratou, Silia Uglik-Marucha, Nora Hayes, Chloe Erfanian, Mercede Pearson, Oliver Gregory, Jane Audiol Res Article Misophonia is characterised by a low tolerance for day-to-day sounds, causing intense negative affect. This study conducts an in-depth investigation of 35 misophonia triggers. A sample of 613 individuals who identify as experiencing misophonia and 202 individuals from the general population completed self-report measures. Using contemporary psychometric methods, we studied the triggers in terms of internal consistency, stability in time, precision, severity, discrimination ability, and information. Three dimensions of sensitivity were identified, namely, to eating sounds, to nose/throat sounds, and to general environmental sounds. The most informative and discriminative triggers belonged to the eating sounds. Participants identifying with having misophonia had also significantly increased odds to endorse eating sounds as auditory triggers than others. This study highlights the central role of eating sounds in this phenomenon and finds that different triggers are endorsed by those with more severe sound sensitivities than those with low sensitivity. MDPI 2021-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8544191/ /pubmed/34698077 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/audiolres11040051 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Vitoratou, Silia Uglik-Marucha, Nora Hayes, Chloe Erfanian, Mercede Pearson, Oliver Gregory, Jane Item Response Theory Investigation of Misophonia Auditory Triggers |
title | Item Response Theory Investigation of Misophonia Auditory Triggers |
title_full | Item Response Theory Investigation of Misophonia Auditory Triggers |
title_fullStr | Item Response Theory Investigation of Misophonia Auditory Triggers |
title_full_unstemmed | Item Response Theory Investigation of Misophonia Auditory Triggers |
title_short | Item Response Theory Investigation of Misophonia Auditory Triggers |
title_sort | item response theory investigation of misophonia auditory triggers |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8544191/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34698077 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/audiolres11040051 |
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