The Highly Sensitive Person: Stress and physical symptom reports

Benham, Grant

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2005.11.021

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“…[1] It is one of the most reliable and valid tests available for subjective stress appraisal and has a reliability score (Cronbach's alpha) of 0.72. [15] The intervention protocol Prior to the intervention programme, all groups were informed that they had to participate in the study for 8 weeks, and that the required participation in the given intervention was a minimum of three times a week and a maximum of six times a week. [14] This required 24 exercise sessions over the 8-week period.…”

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confidence: 99%

The effect of various physical exercise modes on perceived psychological stress

Magalhaes¹

2016

S Afr J SM

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Background. Stress is an integral part of daily living, but chronic activation of the stress response without the ability to express the physical response results in overloading of the physiological and psychological systems. Objective. To decrease perceived stress by means of one known and/or one relatively unknown physical activity, namely aerobic exercise and somatic awareness exercise. Methods. This investigation made use of a quantitative, comparative, experimental research design over an 8-week period using pre-and post-tests. Participants were measured for psychological stress using a perceived stress scale. The participants were divided into those who were physically untrained and those who participated in exercise training programmes.Results. There were five groups in total. The physically untrained individuals were divided into four groups: a somatic awareness exercise group (n=9); an aerobic exercise group (n=15); a combination group taking part in both somatic awareness and aerobic exercise (n=8); and a control group (n=15). The 5th group contained individuals who participated in physical exercise prior to entering the programme; they were given somatic awareness exercise (n=9) in addition to their existing physical exercises. An independent samples t-test revealed significant changes for perceived stress in the aerobic, somatic, combination and exercise groups, with a 95% confidence level in comparison with the control group. Conclusion. Various physical modes such as aerobic exercise, somatic awareness training and a combination of the two may be used to decrease one's perceived stress in moderately to highly stressed individuals who are sedentary or who are physically active.

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confidence: 99%

The effect of various physical exercise modes on perceived psychological stress

Magalhaes¹

2016

S Afr J SM

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“…Although recent theoretical and empirical developments in the area of Environmental Sensitivity, including the theory of "Vantage Sensitivity" (see Pluess, 2017), suggested that people scoring high on Environmental Sensitivity measures (i.e., the HSP scale) might also benefit more from positive experiences and supportive environments (Pluess, Boniwell, Hefferon, & Tunariu, 2017), the main focus of research on the relationship with psychological well-being focuses on negative effects, indicated by associations with physical and psychological discomfort (e.g., Bakker & Moulding, 2012;Benham, 2006). Evidence suggesting positive effects of supportive environments on the different revealed factors, such as sensitive openness, exists (e.g., Sobocko & Zelenski, 2015), but is still scarce, inconsistent, and displays a research gap.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We assumed the factor Sensitive Openness to Stimuli to be positively related to the Big Five personality trait openness (see Evans & Rothbart, 2008;Sobocko & Zelenski, 2015) and academic interest (see introductory section). The factor Overexcitability was expected to be positively related to Big Five neuroticism and negatively related to indicators of adjustment and well-being (see Aron & Aron, 1997;Bakker & Moulding, 2012;Benham, 2006;Sobocko & Zelenski, 2015). Furthermore, we tested whether SPS and its sub-facets would explain unique variance in validity variables over and above Big Five personality traits (see Aron & Aron, 1997).…”

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Measuring Environmental Sensitivity in Educational Contexts: A Validation Study With German-Speaking Students

Tillmann¹,

Matany²,

Duttweiler³

2018

JEDP

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Sensory-Processing Sensitivity (SPS), as part of the general theory on Environmental Sensitivity (Pluess, 2015), is a temperamental individual difference variable, referring to sensitive perception and processing of as well as reflection upon environmental stimuli. For its measurement, Aron and Aron (1997) developed the Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSP Scale) for application with adults. However, despite some adaption into German (Konrad & Herzberg, 2017) and a first English version for children , no suitable measures of SPS for children exist in German. The presented two studies aimed at developing and validating a short, 10-item German version of the scale, which can be administered efficiently in educational field studies with German-speaking secondary school students. The factorial structure, its relationship with other personality traits (i.e., the Big Five; McCrae & Costa, 1990) and exploratory analyses on relationships with additional school-related variables were revealed using data from two independent student samples (N = 301 German academic-track secondary school students and N = 460 German vocational track secondary school students). Relations to existing research, practical implications for the educational context, and limitations of the studies are discussed.

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“…First, highly sensitive individuals, compared with non-HSPs, suffer frequently from stress and anxiety in social and crowded situations (Aron, 1996). Second, they have a lower level of self-acceptance as well as negative attitudes and resistance towards crowded and/or social situations (Liss et al, 2005;Benham, 2006;Hofmann & Bitran, 2007;Aron, 1996). The MBSR program has been shown to be effective in reducing the above-mentioned problems (Miller, Fletcher, & Kabat-Zinn, 1995;Shapiro, Schwartz, & Bonner, 1998;Chang, Palesh, Caldwell, Glasgow, Abramson, Luskin, Gill, Burke, & Koopman, 2004;Shapiro, Astin, Bishop, & Cordova, 2005, Kabat-Zinn, Massion, Kristeller, Peterson, Fletcher, Pbert, Lenderking & Santorelli, 1992, Carson & Langer, 2006, Thompson & Waltz, 2007.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Numerous studies found that participants experienced less stress after completing the MBSR program (e.g., Schapiro et al, 1998, Chang et al 2004, Shapiro et al, 2005. Since HSPs, as compared to their counterparts, often evaluate the same situation as more stressful and report more stress (Benham, 2006;Aron, 1996), it is important to test the effectiveness of the MBSR program among HSPs.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%