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Background: Approximately one-fifth of the world’s population has a temperament trait called Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS), expressed as increased awareness to perceive subtle stimuli and high emotional reactivity. These people are more sensitive to the environment and parenthood, so the development of psychopathology may be due to insecure attachment in conjunction with high sensitivity, not only to high sensitivity. However, there is little information on how SPS interacts with attachment style concerning Emotional Regulation, whose alteration is considered the underlying mechanism that allows understanding and preventing psychopathology’s emergence. Objective: This research’s objective was to evaluate the importance of SPS and attachment styles as predictors of difficulties in emotional regulation (ERD). Method: 1050 university students participated. To determine the direct and indirect relationships of the independent variables, generalized linear models and structural equations were used. Results: Only anxious attachment was indirectly related to ERD through the SPS. SPS-attachment interaction seems to increase the probability of ERD compared to a low level of SPS regardless of attachment style. An anxious attachment was found to be the best predictor of ERD. Conclusions: Difficulties in regulating emotions in highly sensitive people are difficult to avoid, even with a secure attachment.

Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) is a genetically-determined trait that allows people to notice external and internal subtleties in sensory stimuli easily. This feature provides certain advantages to those who possess it, such as, greater empathy, artistic tastes or skills, also, this people can get greater benefit in circumstances with little exposure to sensory input. However, an unfavorable feature of the trait is an increased vulnerability to development psychopathology. In Mexico there is not an instrument to assess the presence of the SPS, thus, the purpose of this research was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSP Scale) in Mexican population. The results showed that the adaptation of HSP Scale has adequate psychometric properties, so the essential contribution of this study is to provide a reliable and valid instrument that allows to discriminate the presence of the SPS.

La imagen corporal (IC) es la representación subjetiva de la percepción, evaluación, valoración y vivencia del cuerpo que proporciona el sentido de sí mismo como una totalidad. Es afectada cuando existen enfermedades oncológicas que implican cambios corporales. En esta revisión sistemática se identificaron instrumentos susceptibles de usarse en Latinoamérica para evaluar la IC de mujeres con cáncer de mama, analizando 34 artículos publicados en inglés y español del periodo 2004-2014 en bases de libre acceso. Instrumentos originados en Europa y Estados Unidos, tales como la Escala de Imagen Corporal de Hopwood y el módulo QLQ BR 23, desarrollado por la Organización Europea para Investigación y Tratamiento en Cáncer (EORTC), con buenas características psicométricas de validez y confiabilidad, se han utilizado en población latinoamericana. Se valora cómo la IC de mujeres con cáncer de mama afecta su sexualidad, las relaciones de pareja, su autoestima, los estilos de afrontamiento y calidad de vida.