a Department of Psychology , University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland.
Int J Psychol. 2013;48(6):1191-5. doi: 10.1080/00207594.2013.775448. Epub 2013 Apr 5.
The fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia), the joy of being laughed at (gelotophilia), and the joy of laughing at others (katagelasticism) were tested in a sample of 189 7- and 8-year-olds and their parents (185 mothers, 160 fathers). The dispositions were widely unrelated in the full sample. There was a positive relation between girls' and mothers' katagelasticism as well as between the 7-year-old boys' katagelasticism and their parents' gelotophilia. Furthermore, the 8-year-old boys' fear of being laughed at correlated robustly positively with their parents' gelotophobia and their gelotophilia with their parents' katagelasticism. Similarities/dissimilarities in the parental expression in the dispositions had no impact on the scores in the children. The findings are different from relations reported for parents and their adult children. The study provides ground for further studies on how families deal with ridicule and being laughed at.
在一个由 189 名 7 岁和 8 岁儿童及其父母（185 名母亲，160 名父亲）组成的样本中，测试了被嘲笑的恐惧（gelotophobia）、被嘲笑的喜悦（gelotophilia）和嘲笑他人的喜悦（katagelasticism）。在整个样本中，这些倾向之间没有广泛的关联。女孩和母亲的 katagelasticism 以及 7 岁男孩的 katagelasticism 与他们父母的 gelotophilia 之间存在正相关。此外，8 岁男孩被嘲笑的恐惧与他们父母的 gelotophobia 呈显著正相关，他们的 gelotophilia 与他们父母的 katagelasticism 呈显著正相关。父母在这些倾向中的表达相似/不同，对孩子的得分没有影响。这些发现与父母与其成年子女的关系报告不同。该研究为进一步研究家庭如何处理嘲笑和被嘲笑提供了基础。
