Department of Health Psychology, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain.
Institute of Psychology and Human Sciences, University of Economics and Innovation, 20-209 Lublin, Poland.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Mar 6;19(5):3101. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19053101.
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 and McDonald's values indicated that the Spanish version of the HSC scale was a reliable measure of environmental sensitivity, as a general factor of sensitivity ( = 0.84), and even in its three dimensions: EOE ( = 0.86), LST ( = 0.77) and AES ( = 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.
环境敏感性是指感知、记录和处理环境信息的能力，不同儿童和青少年之间存在差异。高度敏感儿童（HSC）量表已被用于评估青少年的环境敏感性。HSC 量表是高度敏感人格（HSP）量表的简短 12 项改编版。本初步研究旨在跨文化适应高度敏感儿童（HSC）量表，并分析其因子结构、信度和效度。首先，双语专家进行了跨文化适应。其次，一旦问卷被翻译，就分析其心理测量特性。HSC 量表的西班牙语版本由回答 141 名 6 至 10 岁儿童信息的父母填写。还应用了情感、活动和社交性调查（EAS）的西班牙语版本。验证性因子分析的结果证实了我们西班牙样本中敏感性的三因素结构。该结构包括以下三个维度：（1）易兴奋度（EOE），（2）低感觉阈（LST）和（3）审美敏感性（AES）。此外，Cronbach's 和 McDonald's 值均表明，HSC 量表的西班牙语版本是一种可靠的环境敏感性测量方法，作为敏感性的一般因素（ = 0.84），甚至在其三个维度中也是如此：EOE（ = 0.86），LST（ = 0.77）和 AES（ = 0.73）。最后，收敛有效性的相关性显示出正相关，尤其是在 SPS 和情感性的三个维度之间（EOE r = 0.351；LST r = 0.274；AES r = 0.259），这是 EAS 调查的一个领域。初步研究提供了有趣的结果，表明在西班牙样本中，敏感性的原始结构具有可靠和有效的复制。
