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Who fears being laughed at? The location of gelotophobia in the Eysenckian PEN-model of personality

Ruch, Willibald; Proyer, Rene T (2009). Who fears being laughed at? The location of gelotophobia in the Eysenckian PEN-model of personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 46(5-6):627-630.

Abstract

The first empirical studies on the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia; Ruch & Proyer, 2008a,b) indicated that it is a valid and useful new individual differences variable. The aim of the present paper is to examine where in the Eysenckian PEN-model gelotophobia can be located. Based on the available literature, gelotophobes are expected to be introverted, neurotic high P individuals. About N = 230 participants, completed the revised form of the EPQ R, all items from precursors of the P scale, and a gelotophobia questionnaire. Gelotophobes could be described as introverted, scoring higher in the older (more clinically oriented) versions of the P scale. Social desirability did not contribute substantially to gelotophobia. A stepwise multiple regression analysis showed that the Eysenckian superfactors explained 37% of the fear of being laughed at when older P scales were included. Gelotophobia can be well located in and predicted by established personality variables. However, not all of the variance is accounted for by personality.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Psychology
Dewey Decimal Classification:150 Psychology
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > General Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:Extraversion, Gelotophobia, Laughter, Neuroticism, PEN-model, Psychoticism
Language:English
Date:April 2009
Deposited On:14 Mar 2009 18:35
Last Modified:02 Nov 2024 02:38
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:0191-8869
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.01.004

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