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DATE: May 26, 2026 at 08:00AM
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: A single question about sound sensitivity can predict teenage anxiety
URL: https://www.psypost.org/a-single-question-about-sound-sensitivity-can-predict-teenage-anxiety/
An analysis of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children data found that children with hyperacusis at age 11 tended to show more severe symptoms of anxiety when they were 13 and 16 years old. The association remained even when controlling for pre-existing anxiety and emotional problems, autism traits, and other neurodiversity characteristics such as ADHD, dyslexia, or dyspraxia. The paper was published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
Hyperacusis is a condition in which ordinary sounds feel unusually loud, uncomfortable, painful, or overwhelming. Sounds that most people tolerate easily, such as dishes clinking, traffic, voices, music, or household appliances, may feel unbearable to someone with hyperacusis. It is different from simply disliking noise, because the person’s sound tolerance is reduced.
Hyperacusis can affect one or both ears. It may occur after noise exposure, ear problems, migraine, head injury, certain neurological conditions, anxiety, or sometimes without a clear cause. Some people with hyperacusis also have tinnitus, which means hearing ringing, buzzing, or other sounds without an external source. The condition can lead people to avoid social situations, public places, work environments, or everyday activities. Interestingly, using ear protection all the time can sometimes make sound sensitivity worse, although such protection is useful in environments that are genuinely loud.
Study author Foteini Tseliou and her colleagues wanted to assess whether a single question about hyperacusis at age 11 helps predict anxiety and related emotional problems in adolescence (ages 13 and 16). They also wanted to know whether it can distinguish previously identified developmental trajectories of anxiety.
These authors analyzed data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). ALSPAC is an ongoing longitudinal study that initially enrolled 14,541 pregnant women residing in the Avon area in the UK who expected delivery between April 1991 and the end of 1992. They gave birth to 14,062 children, 13,988 of whom reached 1 year of age.
Data used in this analysis came from 6,621 participants of the ALSPAC study. Fifty-one percent of them were female. They answered a question about hyperacusis when they were 11 years old and provided data on mental health outcomes of interest for this analysis at least once after this. These outcomes were emotional problems at 13 and 16 years of age; anxiety, depression, and self-harm at 24; and emotional problems at 25 years of age.
When participating children were 11 years old, they attended a hearing assessment during which a hyperacusis and tinnitus interview was also carried out. One of the questions asked them whether they ever experienced oversensitivity or distress to particular sounds, referring to everyday sounds, not sounds that were particularly loud. The authors of this study used responses to this question as a measure of hyperacusis.
Results showed that 3.7% of participating children reported hyperacusis. Sixty-two percent of the children reporting hyperacusis were boys. Analyses showed that children who reported hyperacusis at age 11 had three times higher odds of reporting hyperacusis when they were 28 years old.
Further analyses revealed that children who suffered from hyperacusis at 11 years of age tended to show more severe symptoms of anxiety when they were 13 and 16 years old. This association remained even when accounting for pre-existing anxiety or emotional problems, autism traits, and other neurodiversity characteristics such as ADHD, dyslexia, or dyspraxia. Specifically, the researchers noted that hyperacusis was most strongly associated with symptoms of fear, worry, and nervousness, rather than broader depressive symptoms or somatic complaints.
Hyperacusis at 11 years of age also predicted a persistent trajectory of anxiety development. This trajectory refers to children whose anxiety-related emotional problems were already high in childhood and remained high throughout childhood and adolescence, rather than decreasing over time. Additional analyses found that hyperacusis still predicted emotional problems when participants were 25 years old, but did not predict adult generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, or suicidal self-harm.
“Taken together, our findings suggest that assessing hyperacusis at age 11 can provide additional predictive insights into the exacerbation and maintenance of anxiety in adolescence,” the study authors concluded.
The study contributes to the body of scientific knowledge about the mental health correlates of hyperacusis. However, the study authors note that the ALSPAC study experienced substantial dropout over time, with over 50% of participants dropping out of the study by 24 years of age. This could have introduced attrition bias, affecting the results. Furthermore, measuring hyperacusis with a single question asked during a formal hearing clinic may have led to underreporting, as some children might not have realized the question applied to everyday distress over normal noises.
The paper, “Sensory hyperacusis as a predictor of anxiety in adolescence,” was authored by Foteini Tseliou, Stephan Collishaw, Alice Price, and Petroc Sumner.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/a-single-question-about-sound-sensitivity-can-predict-teenage-anxiety/
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #Hyperacusis #AnxietyInAdolescence #ALSPAC #Teen MentalHealth #SoundSensitivity #PediatricPsychology #HearingHealth #MentalHealthResearch #ChildDevelopment #PredictivePsychology
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DATE: May 26, 2026 at 08:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: A single question about sound sensitivity can predict teenage anxiety
URL: https://www.psypost.org/a-single-question-about-sound-sensitivity-can-predict-teenage-anxiety/
An analysis of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children data found that children with hyperacusis at age 11 tended to show more severe symptoms of anxiety when they were 13 and 16 years old. The association remained even when controlling for pre-existing anxiety and emotional problems, autism traits, and other neurodiversity characteristics such as ADHD, dyslexia, or dyspraxia. The paper was published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
Hyperacusis is a condition in which ordinary sounds feel unusually loud, uncomfortable, painful, or overwhelming. Sounds that most people tolerate easily, such as dishes clinking, traffic, voices, music, or household appliances, may feel unbearable to someone with hyperacusis. It is different from simply disliking noise, because the person’s sound tolerance is reduced.
Hyperacusis can affect one or both ears. It may occur after noise exposure, ear problems, migraine, head injury, certain neurological conditions, anxiety, or sometimes without a clear cause. Some people with hyperacusis also have tinnitus, which means hearing ringing, buzzing, or other sounds without an external source. The condition can lead people to avoid social situations, public places, work environments, or everyday activities. Interestingly, using ear protection all the time can sometimes make sound sensitivity worse, although such protection is useful in environments that are genuinely loud.
Study author Foteini Tseliou and her colleagues wanted to assess whether a single question about hyperacusis at age 11 helps predict anxiety and related emotional problems in adolescence (ages 13 and 16). They also wanted to know whether it can distinguish previously identified developmental trajectories of anxiety.
These authors analyzed data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). ALSPAC is an ongoing longitudinal study that initially enrolled 14,541 pregnant women residing in the Avon area in the UK who expected delivery between April 1991 and the end of 1992. They gave birth to 14,062 children, 13,988 of whom reached 1 year of age.
Data used in this analysis came from 6,621 participants of the ALSPAC study. Fifty-one percent of them were female. They answered a question about hyperacusis when they were 11 years old and provided data on mental health outcomes of interest for this analysis at least once after this. These outcomes were emotional problems at 13 and 16 years of age; anxiety, depression, and self-harm at 24; and emotional problems at 25 years of age.
When participating children were 11 years old, they attended a hearing assessment during which a hyperacusis and tinnitus interview was also carried out. One of the questions asked them whether they ever experienced oversensitivity or distress to particular sounds, referring to everyday sounds, not sounds that were particularly loud. The authors of this study used responses to this question as a measure of hyperacusis.
Results showed that 3.7% of participating children reported hyperacusis. Sixty-two percent of the children reporting hyperacusis were boys. Analyses showed that children who reported hyperacusis at age 11 had three times higher odds of reporting hyperacusis when they were 28 years old.
Further analyses revealed that children who suffered from hyperacusis at 11 years of age tended to show more severe symptoms of anxiety when they were 13 and 16 years old. This association remained even when accounting for pre-existing anxiety or emotional problems, autism traits, and other neurodiversity characteristics such as ADHD, dyslexia, or dyspraxia. Specifically, the researchers noted that hyperacusis was most strongly associated with symptoms of fear, worry, and nervousness, rather than broader depressive symptoms or somatic complaints.
Hyperacusis at 11 years of age also predicted a persistent trajectory of anxiety development. This trajectory refers to children whose anxiety-related emotional problems were already high in childhood and remained high throughout childhood and adolescence, rather than decreasing over time. Additional analyses found that hyperacusis still predicted emotional problems when participants were 25 years old, but did not predict adult generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, or suicidal self-harm.
“Taken together, our findings suggest that assessing hyperacusis at age 11 can provide additional predictive insights into the exacerbation and maintenance of anxiety in adolescence,” the study authors concluded.
The study contributes to the body of scientific knowledge about the mental health correlates of hyperacusis. However, the study authors note that the ALSPAC study experienced substantial dropout over time, with over 50% of participants dropping out of the study by 24 years of age. This could have introduced attrition bias, affecting the results. Furthermore, measuring hyperacusis with a single question asked during a formal hearing clinic may have led to underreporting, as some children might not have realized the question applied to everyday distress over normal noises.
The paper, “Sensory hyperacusis as a predictor of anxiety in adolescence,” was authored by Foteini Tseliou, Stephan Collishaw, Alice Price, and Petroc Sumner.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/a-single-question-about-sound-sensitivity-can-predict-teenage-anxiety/
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #Hyperacusis #AnxietyInAdolescence #ALSPAC #Teen MentalHealth #SoundSensitivity #PediatricPsychology #HearingHealth #MentalHealthResearch #ChildDevelopment #PredictivePsychology
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DATE: May 26, 2026 at 08:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: A single question about sound sensitivity can predict teenage anxiety
URL: https://www.psypost.org/a-single-question-about-sound-sensitivity-can-predict-teenage-anxiety/
An analysis of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children data found that children with hyperacusis at age 11 tended to show more severe symptoms of anxiety when they were 13 and 16 years old. The association remained even when controlling for pre-existing anxiety and emotional problems, autism traits, and other neurodiversity characteristics such as ADHD, dyslexia, or dyspraxia. The paper was published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
Hyperacusis is a condition in which ordinary sounds feel unusually loud, uncomfortable, painful, or overwhelming. Sounds that most people tolerate easily, such as dishes clinking, traffic, voices, music, or household appliances, may feel unbearable to someone with hyperacusis. It is different from simply disliking noise, because the person’s sound tolerance is reduced.
Hyperacusis can affect one or both ears. It may occur after noise exposure, ear problems, migraine, head injury, certain neurological conditions, anxiety, or sometimes without a clear cause. Some people with hyperacusis also have tinnitus, which means hearing ringing, buzzing, or other sounds without an external source. The condition can lead people to avoid social situations, public places, work environments, or everyday activities. Interestingly, using ear protection all the time can sometimes make sound sensitivity worse, although such protection is useful in environments that are genuinely loud.
Study author Foteini Tseliou and her colleagues wanted to assess whether a single question about hyperacusis at age 11 helps predict anxiety and related emotional problems in adolescence (ages 13 and 16). They also wanted to know whether it can distinguish previously identified developmental trajectories of anxiety.
These authors analyzed data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). ALSPAC is an ongoing longitudinal study that initially enrolled 14,541 pregnant women residing in the Avon area in the UK who expected delivery between April 1991 and the end of 1992. They gave birth to 14,062 children, 13,988 of whom reached 1 year of age.
Data used in this analysis came from 6,621 participants of the ALSPAC study. Fifty-one percent of them were female. They answered a question about hyperacusis when they were 11 years old and provided data on mental health outcomes of interest for this analysis at least once after this. These outcomes were emotional problems at 13 and 16 years of age; anxiety, depression, and self-harm at 24; and emotional problems at 25 years of age.
When participating children were 11 years old, they attended a hearing assessment during which a hyperacusis and tinnitus interview was also carried out. One of the questions asked them whether they ever experienced oversensitivity or distress to particular sounds, referring to everyday sounds, not sounds that were particularly loud. The authors of this study used responses to this question as a measure of hyperacusis.
Results showed that 3.7% of participating children reported hyperacusis. Sixty-two percent of the children reporting hyperacusis were boys. Analyses showed that children who reported hyperacusis at age 11 had three times higher odds of reporting hyperacusis when they were 28 years old.
Further analyses revealed that children who suffered from hyperacusis at 11 years of age tended to show more severe symptoms of anxiety when they were 13 and 16 years old. This association remained even when accounting for pre-existing anxiety or emotional problems, autism traits, and other neurodiversity characteristics such as ADHD, dyslexia, or dyspraxia. Specifically, the researchers noted that hyperacusis was most strongly associated with symptoms of fear, worry, and nervousness, rather than broader depressive symptoms or somatic complaints.
Hyperacusis at 11 years of age also predicted a persistent trajectory of anxiety development. This trajectory refers to children whose anxiety-related emotional problems were already high in childhood and remained high throughout childhood and adolescence, rather than decreasing over time. Additional analyses found that hyperacusis still predicted emotional problems when participants were 25 years old, but did not predict adult generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, or suicidal self-harm.
“Taken together, our findings suggest that assessing hyperacusis at age 11 can provide additional predictive insights into the exacerbation and maintenance of anxiety in adolescence,” the study authors concluded.
The study contributes to the body of scientific knowledge about the mental health correlates of hyperacusis. However, the study authors note that the ALSPAC study experienced substantial dropout over time, with over 50% of participants dropping out of the study by 24 years of age. This could have introduced attrition bias, affecting the results. Furthermore, measuring hyperacusis with a single question asked during a formal hearing clinic may have led to underreporting, as some children might not have realized the question applied to everyday distress over normal noises.
The paper, “Sensory hyperacusis as a predictor of anxiety in adolescence,” was authored by Foteini Tseliou, Stephan Collishaw, Alice Price, and Petroc Sumner.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/a-single-question-about-sound-sensitivity-can-predict-teenage-anxiety/
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #Hyperacusis #AnxietyInAdolescence #ALSPAC #Teen MentalHealth #SoundSensitivity #PediatricPsychology #HearingHealth #MentalHealthResearch #ChildDevelopment #PredictivePsychology
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A source for soundproofing material. From a report on a carers' group meeting.
Links:
https://www.audimute.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoroq-oztCCyDsWYuOfTj0brxVBYOTicWgLq0x0-AfSMtfxwM4Wahttps://www.amazon.com/stores/Audimute/page/A4D2379B-B4AD-4700-A085-096A2AF15C1F
COI: I have no financial or other interest in these companies
#SoundSensitivity #NoiseSensitivity #LongCovid #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #SevereME #SevereMECFS @longcovid @mecfs
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A source for soundproofing material. From a report on a carers' group meeting.
Links:
https://www.audimute.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoroq-oztCCyDsWYuOfTj0brxVBYOTicWgLq0x0-AfSMtfxwM4Wahttps://www.amazon.com/stores/Audimute/page/A4D2379B-B4AD-4700-A085-096A2AF15C1F
COI: I have no financial or other interest in these companies
#SoundSensitivity #NoiseSensitivity #LongCovid #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #SevereME #SevereMECFS @longcovid @mecfs
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A source for soundproofing material. From a report on a carers' group meeting.
Links:
https://www.audimute.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoroq-oztCCyDsWYuOfTj0brxVBYOTicWgLq0x0-AfSMtfxwM4Wahttps://www.amazon.com/stores/Audimute/page/A4D2379B-B4AD-4700-A085-096A2AF15C1F
COI: I have no financial or other interest in these companies
#SoundSensitivity #NoiseSensitivity #LongCovid #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #SevereME #SevereMECFS @longcovid @mecfs
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A source for soundproofing material. From a report on a carers' group meeting.
Links:
https://www.audimute.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoroq-oztCCyDsWYuOfTj0brxVBYOTicWgLq0x0-AfSMtfxwM4Wahttps://www.amazon.com/stores/Audimute/page/A4D2379B-B4AD-4700-A085-096A2AF15C1F
COI: I have no financial or other interest in these companies
#SoundSensitivity #NoiseSensitivity #LongCovid #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #SevereME #SevereMECFS @longcovid @mecfs
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A source for soundproofing material. From a report on a carers' group meeting.
Links:
https://www.audimute.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoroq-oztCCyDsWYuOfTj0brxVBYOTicWgLq0x0-AfSMtfxwM4Wahttps://www.amazon.com/stores/Audimute/page/A4D2379B-B4AD-4700-A085-096A2AF15C1F
COI: I have no financial or other interest in these companies
#SoundSensitivity #NoiseSensitivity #LongCovid #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #SevereME #SevereMECFS @longcovid @mecfs
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"A long-term study conducted by SoundSense has identified a correlation between a person's sensitivity to loud noises or specific tones that were often inaudible to others, and that person's state of ill health or a health condition"
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/ince/incecp/2024/00000269/00000001/art00047
@hyperacusis #NoiseSensitivity #SoundSensitivity #Hyperacusis
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At an event where we have been bussed 30 minutes away to stand in a (nicely decorated) open air barn with 100 overly loud tech people while loud music is blasted at us.
MUST BE HAVING A GREAT TIME IF WE ARE ALL SHOUTING!
I’m wishing I’d brought a book but hiding with noise cancelling earphones and frustration-tooting is what I have 😅
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I bought the same headphones yesterday to replace my old xm3. ANC headphones are game changer for me. They reduce my anxiety which I wasn't aware of before I found I'm an autist.
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@actuallyautistic
Just a quick PSA.
Treated myself to my first ever noise cancelling headphones. Sony WH-1000XM4 for anyone interested. I can't do a product review as such, because of course I've never owned anything to compare it with. But a few things occurred to me that might interest anyone else in my position and thinking about doing the same. First of all, the sound cancellation is incredible, I mean completely amazeballs, far better than the loop Quiets that I use all the time (and also swear by), but it is not total. There is a small amount of sound in certain registers, but it is very distant and even I had to focus to hear some of it. Also one of the things that I've often wondered about these things, is that the ANC cancelling works without being connected to anything. Once initial set up is complete all you have to do is switch on the earphones and away you go. No need to burn through data or be tethered to a phone. There is a vague weirdness to the active ANC system though, not a noise exactly but more of a slightly queezy feeling that I'm sure I will get used to and is probably something to do with the sound negation. All in all though the joy of pretty near silence is incredible. Oh and if you do buy a set like this with voice activated functions, dig around in the control app and you will find the damn off switch to them. So all I can say, from my point of view is why the hell did I wait so long. -
Many probably know this but I just heard there are some quiet hair dryers on the market now. Could be useful for households where there is somebody with #soundsensitivity e.g. people with #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis, #autism, etc.
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I wish part of testing audio devices was testing how they function on the lowest sound volumes too.
I'm incredibly sound sensitive. Cannot handle repeating sounds or any kind of loud volume. My beloved headphones are literally flaking apart so I'm looking for some new ones, and I know I need to pay a bit bc comfort and sound quality (and wireless) is paramount for me.
I found these studio-quality Shure 50 headphones on a deep discount bc they were store display, and even tho all reviews said the sound quality was great I found them too harsh and felt like I was being shouted at, even at the lowest volume my devices can go. None of the EQ settings made any difference.
Have the same issue looking for a speaker for my pc. I use a portable one bc of form design, and finding out which ones work at low volumes is impossible
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I used my ear plugs in a small tavern tonight where there was music and karaoke and a lot of people talking. It’s like a whole new way to exist out in public. 😭 I can not believe I went 50 yrs not fully understanding how much this affected me! I would of normally just sat there bugging and feeling anxious. Someone mentioned they didn’t like hearing their voice and chewing food but I find it incredibly soothing and like I’m in my own sound bubble. Life changing. 😮 #autism #soundsensitivity
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Severe misophonia runs on both sides of my family. My mom feels pain at certain sounds, and so do I. My dad vomits when he hears certain sounds, and so does a cousin on my dad’s side of the family. I have strong visceral reactions to some everyday noises. It’s a testament to my tenacity that I can still function in society. #misophonia #SoundSensitivity #neurodivergent #AuditoryProcessingDisorder #synesthesia
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The worst kind of pain you can inflict on me is not turning off your notification sounds in a public space.