Ruch Willibald, Stahlmann Alexander G
National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES - Overcoming Vulnerability: Life Course Perspectives, Switzerland; University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Professorship for Personality and Assessment, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Binzmuehlestrasse 14/7, CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland.
Curr Psychol. 2023;42(19):16368-16380. doi: 10.1007/s12144-020-01046-y. Epub 2020 Sep 8.
Recent theoretical advances have grounded gelotophobia (Greek: = laughter, = fear) in a dynamic framework of causes, moderating factors, and consequences of the fear of being laughed at. This understanding corresponds to that of and translates gelotophobia into a distinguishable pattern of lacking resources (i.e., misinterpretation of joy and laughter) that can result in negative consequences (e.g., reduced well-being and performance) if individuals have no access to further resources (e.g., social support) or are exposed to severe stressors (e.g., workplace bullying). Based on the panel data provided by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES ( 2469 across six measurement intervals), this study takes the first step toward empirically testing this model's assumptions: First, we computed exemplary zero-order correlations and showed that gelotophobia was negatively connected with social support (resource) and life and job satisfaction (consequences) and positively connected with perceived stress, work stress, and workplace bullying (stressors). Second, we used longitudinal cluster analyses (KmL; k-means-longitudinal) and showed that the panel data can be clustered into three stable patterns of life and job satisfaction and that gelotophobia is primarily related to the two clusters marked by lower levels of satisfaction. Third, we computed partial correlations and showed that social support, perceived stress, and work stress (but not workplace bullying) can weaken or completely resolve gelotophobia's relationships with such diverging trajectories of life and job satisfaction. We concluded that seeing gelotophobia through the lens of vulnerability is useful and that such research warrants further attention using more dedicated, theoretically grounded projects.
最近的理论进展将恐笑症（希腊语：gelos = 笑，phobos = 恐惧）置于一个关于被嘲笑恐惧的成因、调节因素和后果的动态框架之中。这种理解与[相关内容]一致，并将恐笑症转化为一种可区分的缺乏资源模式（即对喜悦和笑声的误解），如果个体无法获得更多资源（如社会支持）或面临严重压力源（如职场霸凌），这种模式可能导致负面后果（如幸福感和表现下降）。基于瑞士国家研究能力中心“生活”项目提供的面板数据（六个测量区间内共2469个样本），本研究朝着实证检验该模型的假设迈出了第一步：首先，我们计算了典型的零阶相关性，结果表明，恐笑症与社会支持（资源）、生活和工作满意度（后果）呈负相关，与感知压力、工作压力和职场霸凌（压力源）呈正相关。其次，我们使用纵向聚类分析（KmL；k均值纵向法），结果表明，面板数据可聚类为三种稳定的生活和工作满意度模式，且恐笑症主要与满意度较低的两个聚类相关。第三，我们计算了偏相关性，结果表明，社会支持、感知压力和工作压力（但不包括职场霸凌）可以削弱或完全消除恐笑症与生活和工作满意度等不同轨迹之间的关系。我们得出结论，从脆弱性的角度看待恐笑症是有用的，并且此类研究值得通过更具针对性、基于理论的项目给予进一步关注。
