High sensitivity in undergraduate students. Testing the psychometric properties of HSP-Scale
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https://doi.org/10.12795/CP.2023.i32.v1.03Keywords:
High Sensitivity, sensory processing, overstimulation, aesthetic sensitivity, low sensory threshold, fine psychophysical discriminationAbstract
The present study aims to test the psychometric properties of the cross-cultural adaptation by Chacón et al. (2021) of Aron's (1996) HSP scale. To this end, we first tested the reliability and construct validity of the instrument by means of a confirmatory factor analysis for categorical data (CFA). Specifically, a procedure of adjustment to ordinal data using the polychoric correlation matrix combined with the DWLS (Diagonally Weighted Least Squares) estimator was used. For internal consistency, the ordinal alpha coefficient and the McDonald's Omega coefficient were calculated, the results of which confirmed the scores obtained by Chacón et al. (2020).
The people who participated in the study were students at the Rey Juan Carlos University and did so anonymously and voluntarily. Finally, we wanted to check whether there were gender differences in sensitivity, and we found statistically significant differences in all dimensions (sensitivity to overstimulation (SOS), aesthetic sensitivity (AES), low sensory threshold (LST), fine psychophysiological discrimination (FPD) and harm avoidance (HA). We conclude, therefore, that the HSP scale validated for the Spanish population is effective, but it is recommended to replicate studies with larger samples and to check whether there are significant differences in sensitivity linked to sex in Spain.
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