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Wie brauchbar ist der „Overexcitability Questionnaire-Two (OEQII)”?

Entwicklung und psychometrische Analyse einer reduzierten deutschsprachigen Version (Übersensibilitätsfragebogen OEQ-D)

Published Online:April 01, 2014https://doi.org/10.1026/0012-1924/a000102

Abstract

Obwohl das Konstrukt „Overexcitability” („Übersensibilität”) aktuell vermehrt thematisiert wird, existieren nur wenige Validitätsbefunde. Darüber hinaus fehlt im deutschen Sprachraum bislang ein psychometrisch überprüftes Erfassungsverfahren. Bei drei Stichproben von Schülerinnen und Schülern der neunten bis elften Jahrgangsstufen wurde eine deutsche Version des im englischen Sprachraum zwar häufig verwendeten, jedoch psychometrisch nur unzureichend überprüften „Overexcitability Questionnaire-Two” (OEQII; 50 Items) von Falk, Lind, Miller, Piechowski und Silverman (1999) eingesetzt. Nach der Eliminierung von 18 ungeeigneten Items konnten die fünf OEQII-Skalen (emotionale, imaginative, psychomotorische, sensorische, intellektuelle Übersensibilität) faktorenanalytisch bestätigt werden, ihre psychometrischen Kennwerte waren zufriedenstellend. Als Validitätshinweise wurden Korrelationen zur allgemeinen Intelligenz, zu Schulnoten, den Big Five und zu Temperamentsskalen analysiert sowie Geschlechtsunterschiede betrachtet. Es ergaben sich nur sehr schwache Hinweise auf konvergent-divergente Validitäten. Die Brauchbarkeit des Konstrukts „Übersensibilität” bleibt fraglich.

Within the field of giftedness, “overexcitability” has recently become popular although the validity of the construct has not yet been examined comprehensively. So far, there is no psychometrically tested German questionnaire. Three studies with school students from the federal state of Hesse were conducted to investigate the psychometric properties of a shortened German version of the frequently used “Overexcitability Questionnaire-Two”(OEQII; 50 items) by Falk, Lind, Miller, Piechowski, and Silverman (1999). After eliminating 18 items, factor analyses confirmed the five OEQII scales (emotional, imaginational, psychomotor, sensoric, intellectual overexcitability). The psychometric properties of the shortened scales were satisfactory. In order to investigate the instrument’s validity, correlations between overexcitability and general intelligence, grades, Big Five factors, as well as temperament factors were calculated and gender differences were investigated. These analyses provided only weak indications of convergent and divergent validity. However, the usefulness of the construct “overexcitability” is still questionable.

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