Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) test

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If you like taking tests, here's another one: the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) test (Aron, 1996).
In her national bestseller, 'The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You', author Elaine Aron defines a distinct personality trait that affects as many as one out of every five people. According to Dr. Aron's definition, the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) has a sensitive nervous system, is aware of subtleties in his/her surroundings, and is more easily overwhelmed when in a highly stimulating environment.
After numerous in-depth interviews, as well as surveys of over one thousand people, Dr. Aron's findings have been published in Counseling Today, Counseling and Human Development, and the prestigious Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Scientific research is still being done on this personality trait, also called Sensory-Processing Sensitivity (SPS). Recent findings by Minshew & Hobson (2008), from a study in which HFA / AS people and controls (NTs) administered Aron's HSP questionnaire, support the common occurrence of sensory symptoms in HFA / AS based on first person report.

Scoring:
If you answered more than fourteen of the questions as true of yourself, you are probably highly sensitive. Note: no psychological test is so accurate that an individual should base his or her life on it. Psychologists try to develop good questions, then decide on the cut off based on the average response.
If fewer questions are true of you, but extremely true, that might also justify calling you highly sensitive.

Here's the test: HSP test



I scored 21 => HSP

Self Test Score

You have indicated that 26 of the items are true of you.



Scoring:
If you answered more than fourteen of the questions as true of yourself, you are probably highly sensitive. But no psychological test is so accurate that an individual should base his or her life on it. We psychologists try to develop good questions, then decide on the cut off based on the average response.

If fewer questions are true of you, but extremely true, that might also justify calling you highly sensitive.

i fall into the category of being a highly sensitive person... i guess it goes with the territory

22 - This one does not surprise me, at all.

Self-Test Results

You have indicated that 18 of the items are true of you.

27

That test really stressed me out for some reason. I guess just thinking about all those things all at once sends me into massive nervous system overload.

(If that wasn't intended to be funny, I'm laughing 'with' you, not 'at' you.)

Laugh if you want to but I have PTSD and believe me, the two problems together isn't easy to deal with.

But I"m glad you got a good chuckle. That always helps.

24, so I am a HSP.

I'm Highly Sensitive, as well. (21 yeses)

You have indicated that 23 of the items are true of you.

Scoring:
If you answered more than fourteen of the questions as true of yourself, you are probably highly sensitive. But no psychological test is so accurate that an individual should base his or her life on it. We psychologists try to develop good questions, then decide on the cut off based on the average response.

If fewer questions are true of you, but extremely true, that might also justify calling you highly sensitive
Its not fair why why why

Hehe, maybe they could deliberately make it a sort of self-referential test -- i.e. print it on sandpaper (florescent colored!), and ask "does this test make you want to scream, cry, or hit something?" "do you have feelings of hostility toward the designer of this test?" "if you could either swallow cyanide, or continue taking test, which would you choose?" (also not meaning this as laughing 'at')

16, I would say I'm only highly sensitive when I'm having a bad day or really overwhelmed though.

Not exactly true as it is written, but I do watch the more "light hearted" crime shows like Bones, Numbers, and Castle and have stopped watching the CSI's because they're kind of a bring down, and that's a lot of murders to see every week. Law and Order: SVU strikes me as especially depressing.

I got 24.