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      Poorer Well-Being in Children With Misophonia: Evidence From the Sussex Misophonia Scale for Adolescents

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          Abstract

          Objective

          Misophonia is an unusually strong aversion to a specific class of sounds – most often human bodily sounds such as chewing, crunching, or breathing. A number of studies have emerged in the last 10 years examining misophonia in adults, but little is known about the impact of the condition in children. Here we set out to investigate the well-being profile of children with misophonia, while also presenting the first validated misophonia questionnaire for children.

          Materials and Methods

          We screened 142 children (10–14 years; Mean 11.72 SD 1.12; 65 female, 77 male) using our novel diagnostic [the Sussex Misophonia Scale for Adolescents ( SMS-Adolescent)]. This allowed us to identify a group of children already manifesting misophonia at that age – the first population-sampled cohort of child misophonics examined to date. Children and their parents also completed measures of well-being (for convergent validation of our SMS-Adolescent) and creative self-construct (for discriminant validation).

          Results

          Data show that children with misophonia have significantly elevated levels of anxiety and obsessive compulsive traits. Additionally children with misophonia have significantly poorer life-satisfaction, and health-related quality of life. As predicted, they show no differences in creative self-construct.

          Conclusion

          Together our data suggest the first evidence in population sampling of poorer life outcomes for children with misophonia, and provide preliminary convergent and discriminant validation for our novel misophonia instrument. Our data suggest a need for greater recognition and therapeutic outlets for adolescents with misophonia.

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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Front Psychol
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Front Psychol
                Journal ID (publisher-id): Front. Psychol.
                Title: Frontiers in Psychology
                Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
                ISSN (Electronic): 1664-1078
                Publication date (Electronic): 06 April 2022
                Publication date Collection: 2022
                Volume: 13
                Electronic Location Identifier: 808379
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                School of Psychology, University of Sussex , Brighton, United Kingdom
                Author notes

                Edited by: M. Zachary Rosenthal, Duke University, United States

                Reviewed by: Mercede Erfanian, University College London, United Kingdom; Wojciech Łukasz Dragan, University of Warsaw, Poland; Zachary J. Williams, Vanderbilt University, United States

                *Correspondence: Louisa J. Rinaldi, L.Rinaldi@ 123456sussex.ac.uk

                This article was submitted to Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology

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                DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.808379
                PMC ID: 9019493
                PubMed ID: 35465571
                SO-VID: cb34c54e-4b70-432c-a2f3-8a63a1e53ce9
                Copyright © Copyright © 2022 Rinaldi, Smees, Ward and Simner.
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                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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                Date received : 03 November 2021
                Date accepted : 11 March 2022
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                Figures: 2, Tables: 2, Equations: 0, References: 79, Pages: 12, Words: 10311
                Categories
                Subject: Psychology
                Subject: Original Research

                ScienceOpen disciplines: Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                Keywords: misophonia,sound-sensitivity,sensory sensitivity,aversion,wellbeing
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                Keywords: misophonia, sound-sensitivity, sensory sensitivity, aversion, wellbeing

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