scholarly journals Biosociality in Online Interactions: Youths’ Positioning of the Highly Sensitive Person Category

Young ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 110330882110158
Author(s):  
Fanny Edenroth-Cato ◽  
Björn Sjöblom
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Personality Trait ◽  
Discursive Psychology ◽  
Online Forum ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Structuralist Theory ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Sensitive Person

This article examines how young people in a Swedish online forum and in blogs engage in discussions of one popularized psychological personality trait, the highly sensitive person (HSP), and how they draw on different positionings in discursive struggles around this category. The material is analysed with concepts from discursive psychology and post-structuralist theory in order to investigate youths’ interactions. The first is a nuanced positioning, from which youths disclose the weaknesses and strengths of being highly sensitive. Some youths become deeply invested in this kind of positioning, hence forming a HSP subjectivity. This can be opposed using contrasting positionings, which objects to norms of biosociality connected to the HSP. Lastly, there are rather distanced and investigative approaches to the HSP category. We conclude that while young people are negotiating the HSP category, they are establishing an epistemological community.

Social Media in Promoting HIV/AIDS Prevention Behaviour among Young People in Botswana

2014 ◽  
pp. 264-279
Author(s):  
Tshepo Batane
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
Online Discussion ◽  
Aids Prevention ◽  
Discussion Forum ◽  
Summative Evaluation ◽  
Online Forum ◽  
Online Discussion Forum ◽  
Hiv Aids

This chapter explores the effects of social media in influencing the behavior of young people in relation to HIV/AIDS. The platform used for the project is an online discussion forum. The study is a One Group Pretest and Posttest inquiry. Formative evaluation is performed at the beginning of the study to establish participants behaviour, the intervention is introduced, then a summative evaluation is done to find out whether the intervention had any effect on the behaviour of the participants. The findings of the study indicate that there is a significant change in the behaviour of participants in relation to HIV/AIDS due to the use of the online forum. The study recommends that more efforts need to be directed to the use of various technologies that young people have at their disposal in the fight against HIV/AIDS as this can be very economical and effective.

scholarly journals Psychometric Properties Of The Highly Sensitive Person Scale In Mexican Population

2019 ◽  
Vol Volume 12 ◽  
pp. 1081-1086
Author(s):  
Karina Salud Montoya-Pérez ◽  
Jorge Isaac Manuel Ortega ◽  
Roberto Montes-Delgado ◽  
Ferrán Padrós-Blázquez ◽  
Jose Maria De la Roca- Chiapas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Mexican Population ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Sensitive Person

Understanding the cultural concept of “highly sensitive person” among bipolar patients

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S514-S514
Author(s):  
M. Ioannou ◽  
M. Dellepiane ◽  
S. Olsson ◽  
S. Steingrimsson
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Emotional Reactivity ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Cultural Concepts Of Distress ◽  
Bipolar Patients ◽  
Cultural Concept ◽  
Sensitive Person

IntroductionThe concept of “highly sensitive person” is a cultural concept, which has become popular in western societies including Sweden. A highly sensitive person (HSP) is usually described as having hypersensitivity to external stimuli, different cognitive processing and high emotional reactivity. Although the concept lacks diagnostic validity, psychiatric patients may refer to this concept.AimsTo examine the feasibility of the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) and the clinical relevance of cultural concepts of distress among patients with bipolar disorder that report being a HSP.MethodsA case series of three patients with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder that report HSP. The CFI was conducted with all patients and the applicability of the DSM-5 cultural concepts of distress tested.ResultsIn all three cases, the CFI facilitated the clinical consultation as reported from the patients and in one of the cases also increased the treatment engagement. The HSP-concept could be conceptualized as a cultural syndrome, idiom of distress and as an explanatory model.ConclusionThe CFI and the cultural concepts of distress proved to be useful for understanding the concept of HSP as also they increased the cultural validity of the diagnostic interview. The three cases illustrate the challenges when encountering patients with other cultural references than clinicians. This highlights the necessity to integrate anthropological thinking in our current diagnostic work in order to reduce the “category fallacy” and promote a more person-centered approach in psychiatry.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

The Vital Importance of Conscientious Discernment

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Joseph Meaney ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Moral Intuition ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
The Difference

Conscientious discernment—which involves the ability to see right and wrong clearly—is an important task that all people must undertake on a daily basis. It is difficult to properly form one’s conscience, which is not a feeling or a mere moral intuition. To the contrary, it is rooted in object truth and reason; and through conscience, a person recognizes the morality, or immorality, of an act. As a result, moral education—teaching the difference between virtue and sin—is a crucial responsibility of parents. But young people are highly sensitive to hypocrisy, so we must live as examples, resisting complacency and continuing to form our consciences throughout our lives.

Validity of the Translated Version of Highly Sensitive Person Scale

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji Hee Chung ◽  
Hyun Sook Yi ◽  
Donghyuck Lee ◽  
Ji Hyun Park
Keyword(s):  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Sensitive Person
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