The relationships between sensory processing sensitivity, alexithymia, autism, depression, and anxiety

Making sense of it all: The impact of sensory processing sensitivity on daily functioning of children

“…The moderate positive intercorrelation among the factors is consistent with a general, higherorder construct of SPS that was also found in previous research with adults (Liss et al, 2008;Smolewska et al, 2006).…”

“…The second factor included 9 items and was mostly related to the characteristic "Depth of Processing" (DP). As expected, there was no clear conceptual overlap with previously found factor structures in research with adults (Evans & Rothbart, 2008;Liss et al, 2008;Smolewska et al, 2006). Next to the fact that the items differ in number and content between the adult and child version of the HSPS and the use of parent-report in children versus self-report in adults, a possible explanation could be that SPS in childhood is expressed in a different way than in adulthood.…”

“…The dimensionality of the HSPS in adults was examined by three independent studies. Liss et al (2008) and Smolewska et al (2006) revealed a post-hoc three-factor structure, with a strong intercorrelation between the factors suggesting a single higher order construct. Evans and Rothbart (2008) however, proposed a two-factor solution very similar to their model of adult temperament (Evans & Rothbart, 2007).…”

“…However, there is also a yes/no response format available in the popular books and website of Elaine N. Aron. Despite the variety of types of sensitivity in the items, the HSPS was initially reported to have a one-dimensional structure (Aron & Aron, 1997) and was shown to have adequate reliability, content-oriented validity, and validity regarding relationships with conceptually related constructs (American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, & National Council On Measurement In Education, 2014; Aron & Aron, 1997;Benham, 2006;Evans & Rothbart, 2008;Liss et al, 2008;Smolewska et al, 2006). To determine whether a person has high SPS or not on a group level, Aron and Aron use a relative cut-off score of the top 20 percent.…”

Modeling the cognitive mechanisms linking autism symptoms and anxiety in adults.

“…While each scale has good internal consistency, our analyses focused on the first two sub-scales because of past research suggesting a weak relationship between externally oriented thinking and anxiety compared to a strong relationship between anxiety and difficulties identifying and describing feelings (Berthoz, Consoli, Perez-Diaz, & Jouvent, 1999;Liss, Mailloux, & Erchull, 2008). The TAS-20 has been used to show emotion recognition difficulties in samples with ASD (Berthoz, Lalanne, Crane, & Hill, 2013;Cook, Brewer, Shah, & Bird, 2013) FFMQ-Nonreactivity: The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire is widely used in the mindfulness literature to assess the empirically-derived and conceptually-distinct facets of mindfulness (Baer et al, 2008(Baer et al, , 2006.…”