🌿 Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) Test

What this test measures: traits associated with sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), the research construct commonly described as being a highly sensitive person. It looks at how strongly a person notices, processes, and reacts to environmental, emotional, social, and positive experiences.

Who it is for: choose self-report if you are answering about yourself, or parent-report if you are answering about your child. The parent-report version uses parallel child-focused wording across the same six areas; it is a CT reflection format rather than a published child HSP instrument.

How to answer: rate how much each statement describes the person being assessed overall. Use Not at all, A little, Moderately, Quite a bit, or Extremely. Your answer advances after a brief selection highlight. Use Previous to review or change an earlier response; when reviewing an already answered question, use Next → to move forward again. On the final question, choose your answer and then press See Results.

Parent-report age range: the parent version is designed for school-age children and teens. It is not intended to interpret preschool-age behavior, where developmental stage can strongly affect several of the behaviors asked about here.

The six areas:

• Sensitivity to Details: noticing subtle changes and fine-grained features of your physical environment.
• Depth of Processing: reflecting on experiences, implications, patterns, and meanings before moving on.
• Social Sensitivity: registering subtle interpersonal cues and emotional signals from other people.
• Sensitivity to Positive Experiences: responding strongly to beauty, pleasant sensations, music, nature, and other rewarding experiences.
• Emotional Reactivity: experiencing a stronger or longer-lasting emotional response to what happens around you.
• Overstimulation: becoming mentally or physically overloaded when there is too much input, activity, or competing demand.

How scoring works: each response contributes 0–4 points, with reverse-worded items scored in the opposite direction. Scores are converted to 0–100 for the overall profile and each of the six areas. Lower / Moderate / Higher labels divide each area's possible score range into broad bands; they are not population percentiles. When the six scores differ meaningfully, the result also identifies the strongest and least prominent areas.

Dandelion, Tulip, and Orchid: sensitivity research has described lower-, medium-, and higher-sensitivity groups with these memorable flower labels. CT uses the same three-label idea for the result reveal, but the score bands in this app are CT display bands rather than published group cutoffs. The six-area profile underneath is more informative than the flower label by itself.