Predictors of Environmental Sensitivity in Syrian refugee children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although more prone to psychopathology on average, refugee children differ in their response to adversity. Growing evidence attributes some of these individual differences to varying levels of Environmental Sensitivity - the extent to which children perceive and process contextual influences. However, there is limited knowledge of how Environmental Sensitivity is developmentally influenced, particularly in the refugee setting.

Methods

Here, we investigated whether individual-, family- and community-level predictors (psychosocial and genetic) were associated with self-reported Environmental Sensitivity and its subscales (measured using the 12-item Highly Sensitive Child Scale). Participants were a subsample (n = 1,409) from a cohort of Syrian refugee children and t

SUBMITTER: May AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12354167 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature