Treball Final de Grau en Psicologia. Codi: PS1048. Curs: 2019/202

Dascalu, Teodora Alina

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Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is an innate and evolutionarily conserved personality trait thatwas found in over 15-20% of the population and has a genetic basis (Aron & Aron, 1997).Several theories propose that highly sensitive individuals experience stronger effects to both positive (enriching) and negative(hostile) environments:Differential Susceptibility (DS) (Belsky, 1997; Belsky & Pluess, 2009)Biological Sensitivity to Context (BSC) (Boyce & Ellis, 2005)Sensory Processing Sensitivity Theory (SPS) (Aron & Aron, 1997)Aron and Aron (1997) devised a 27-item questionnaire,named Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS),to measure this three dimensional construct.An online search was conducted in the following databases: PubMed, PubPsych and Scopususing the inclusion criteria (i), (ii) and (iii) (17 articles)Further, the inclusion criteria were widened (iv), (v) and Google Scholar was used to increse the number of articles found(41 articles)INCLUSION CRITERIA: (I) Empirical application of the HSPS method, (ii) Use of NEO- FFI, (iii) Studies on adult human subjects, (iv) Articles in English, (v) anxiety and depression related articles¿ IS  HIGH SENSITIVITY  A  RISK  FACTOR  FOR  MENTAL  HEALTH ?Tutora: SOLEDAD QUERO CASTELLANOAlumna: TEODORA ALINA DASCALU INTRODUCTION58 articles- 15 Non empirical studies (i);12 articles not related to NEO-FFI Inventory (ii); 2 articles with application in Children (III);9 articles not in English (iv), 13 articles not related to anxiety and depression (V) = 7 ARTICLES REVIEWED(Based on Prisma methodology in systematic reviews).AES was related to anxiety because these  individuals have a richer inner life so     they present an internally-oriented thinking which leads to spending a lot of time thinking in their mental and physical actions.DSCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONSEOE and LST had a positive relationship with neuroticism and had significant share in the prediction of mentalhealth, in particular anxiety and depression.Further research needs to focus in the prevention of adverse effects related to SPS and enhance the positivepotential of this trait to prevent mental health.The importance of knowing individual differences regarding sensitivity and how these affect mental health provides thepsychologist additional tools for understanding the way the patients feel, think and give meaning to life.The main limitation of this review was the lack of investigation related to mental disorders and sensory processing sensitivity, therefore further studies are clearly needed to be carried out in this field.Ease of excitation (EOE)Low sensory threshold (LST)Aesthetic sensitivity (AES)(Smolewska et al., 2006)Author and year of publication PublisherMeasurementof research results Results obtainedLiss et al. (2005) Personality and Individual DifferencesRegression analysis and Pearson´scorrelation coefficientsLiss, Mailloux & Erchull (2008)Ahadi & Basharpoor (2010)Personality and Individual differencesJournal of Applied SciencesSobocko & Zelenski (2015) Personality and Individual DifferencesPearson´s correlation coefficientsand regression analysisTranslational PsychiatryEOE and LST had a moderate to low correlation, respectively, with psychological health complaints.The subscales EOE and LST correlated positive and significantly with NE and NA.Grimen & Diseth (2016) Comprehensive PsychologyPearson´s correlation coefficientsand regression analysisSPS was positively correlated to both anxiety and depression (more strongly with anxiety).When controlling for depression, SPS predicted anxiety and, when controlling for anxiety, SPS predicted depression.EOE=ease of excitation; LST= low sensory threshold; AES= aesthetic sensitivity;  N=neuroticism; O=openness; E= extraversion; NE=negative emotionality; NA=negative affectThe objective of this review is to explore the relationship between SPS with the personality features of neuroticism, extraversionand openness, and with mental health (in particular, anxiety and depression).METHODEOE and LST correlated positively with anxiety and depression and AES had a strong relation with anxiety but not with depression.EOE and LST had a positive and significant relationship with N, anxiety, physical symptoms, social functioningdisorder, depression and low mental health. EOE could directly predict mental health.EOE had a negative and significant correlation with extraversion.AES had a significant share in the prediction of openness and has a low but significant correlation with N and anxietyLionetti et al. (2018) Pearson´s correlation coefficientsKey words: sensory processing sensitivity, highly sensitive person scale, personality dimensions,mental health, depression, anxietySmolewska, McCabe, & Woody (2006)Personality and Individual differencesRESULTS

Is high sensitivity a risk factor for mental health?

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Is high sensitivity a risk factor for mental health?

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