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

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 ada...

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Autores principales: Costa-López, Borja, Ruiz-Robledillo, Nicolás, Albaladejo-Blázquez, Natalia, Baryła-Matejczuk, Monika, Ferrer-Cascales, Rosario
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8910120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35270793
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19053101
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author Costa-López, Borja
Ruiz-Robledillo, Nicolás
Albaladejo-Blázquez, Natalia
Baryła-Matejczuk, Monika
Ferrer-Cascales, Rosario
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Ruiz-Robledillo, Nicolás
Albaladejo-Blázquez, Natalia
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description 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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spelling pubmed-89101202022-03-11 Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Highly Sensitive Child Scale: The Parent Version Costa-López, Borja Ruiz-Robledillo, Nicolás Albaladejo-Blázquez, Natalia Baryła-Matejczuk, Monika Ferrer-Cascales, Rosario Int J Environ Res Public Health Article 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. MDPI 2022-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8910120/ /pubmed/35270793 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19053101 Text en © 2022 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/).
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Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Highly Sensitive Child Scale: The Parent Version
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title_short Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Highly Sensitive Child Scale: The Parent Version
title_sort psychometric properties of the spanish version of the highly sensitive child scale: the parent version
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8910120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35270793
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19053101
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