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Breaking ground in cross-cultural research on the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia): A multi-national study involving 73 countries
2009; De Gruyter Mouton; Volume: 22; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1515/humr.2009.012
ISSN1613-3722
AutoresRené T. Proyer, Willibald Ruch, Numan Ali, Hmoud Al-Olimat, Toshihiko Amemiya, Tamirie Andualem Adal, Sadia Aziz Ansari, Špela Arhar, Gigi Asem, Nicolas Baudin, Souha Bawab, Doris Bergen, Ingrid Brdar, Rute Brites, Marina Brunner-Sciarra, Amy Carrell, Hugo Carretero Dios, Mehmet Çelik, Grazia Ceschi, Kay Chang, Guohai Chen, Alexander Cheryomukhin, Maria Pik-yuk Chik, Władysław Chłopicki, Jacquelyn Cranney, Donatien Dahourou, Sibe Doosje, Margherita Dore, Nahwat Amin El-Arousy, Emília Ficková, Martin Führ, Joanne Gallivan, Han Geling, Lydia Germikova, Marija Giedraitytė, Goh Abe, Rebeca Díaz González, Sammy K. Ho, Martina Hřebı́čková, Belen Jaime, Birgit Hertzberg Kaare, Shanmukh V. Kamble, Shahé S. Kazarian, Paavo Kerkkänen, Mirka Klementová, И.М. Кобозева, Snjezana Kovjanic, N. Kumaraswamy, Martin D. Lampert, Chao-Chih Liao, Manon Lévesque, Eleni Loizou, Rolando Díaz Loving, Jim Lyttle, Vera Cecília Machline, Sean McGoldrick, Margaret McRorie, Min Liu, René Mõttus, M. Munyae, Carmen Elvira Navia, Mathero M. Nkhalamba, Pier Paolo Pedrini, Mirsolava Petkova, Tracey Platt, Diana Elena Popa, Anna Radomska, Tabassum Rashid, David Rawlings, Víctor J. Rubio, Andrea C. Samson, Orly Sarid, Soraya Shams, Sek Sisokohm, Jakob Smári, Ian Sneddon, І. Е. Сніховська, Ekaterina A. Stephanenko, Ieva Stokenberga, Hugo Stuer, Yohana Sherly Rosalina Tanoto, L. F. Tapia, Julia M. Taylor, Pascal Thibault, Ava Thompson, Hanna Thörn, Hiroshi Toyota, Judit Ujlaky, Vitanya Vanno, Jun Wang, Betsie Van der Westhuizen, Deepani Wijayathilake, Peter S. O. Wong, Edgar B. Wycoff, Eun Ja Yeun,
Tópico(s)Communication in Education and Healthcare
ResumoAbstract The current study examines whether the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) can be assessed reliably and validly by means of a self-report instrument in different countries of the world. All items of the GELOPH (Ruch and Titze, GELOPH〈46〉, University of Düsseldorf, 1998; Ruch and Proyer, Swiss Journal of Psychology 67:19–27, 2008b) were translated to the local language of the collaborator (42 languages in total). In total, 22,610 participants in 93 samples from 73 countries completed the GELOPH. Across all samples the reliability of the 15-item questionnaire was high (mean alpha of .85) and in all samples the scales appeared to be unidimensional. The endorsement rates for the items ranged from 1.31% through 80.00% to a single item. Variations in the mean scores of the items were more strongly related to the culture in a country and not to the language in which the data were collected. This was also supported by a multidimensional scaling analysis with standardized mean scores of the items from the GELOPH〈15〉. This analysis identified two dimensions that further helped explaining the data (i.e., insecure vs. intense avoidant-restrictive and low vs. high suspicious tendencies towards the laughter of others). Furthermore, multiple samples derived from one country tended to be (with a few exceptions) highly similar. The study shows that gelotophobia can be assessed reliably by means of a self-report instrument in cross-cultural research. This study enables further studies of the fear of being laughed at with regard to differences in the prevalence and putative causes of gelotophobia in comparisons to different cultures.
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