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The association between trait anxiety and the fear of being laughed at in college: A preliminary study with a Brazilian sample

AIM: To evaluate how gelotophobia correlates with trait anxiety in a sample of Brazilian college students. METHODS: We evaluated the association of GELOPH < 15 > scores with both self‐reported experiences of bullying victimization and trait anxiety measures assessed by the State‐Trait Anxiety...

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Autores principales: Rêgo, Tainá S., Pires, Diógenes E. S., Melo, Eline M., Aristizabal, Juan‐Pablo, Pereira, Antonio
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9660430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36177971
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2757
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author Rêgo, Tainá S.
Pires, Diógenes E. S.
Melo, Eline M.
Aristizabal, Juan‐Pablo
Pereira, Antonio
author_facet Rêgo, Tainá S.
Pires, Diógenes E. S.
Melo, Eline M.
Aristizabal, Juan‐Pablo
Pereira, Antonio
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description AIM: To evaluate how gelotophobia correlates with trait anxiety in a sample of Brazilian college students. METHODS: We evaluated the association of GELOPH < 15 > scores with both self‐reported experiences of bullying victimization and trait anxiety measures assessed by the State‐Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). The study consisted of a sample of 65 adult volunteers (M = 21.48, SD = 2.54 years, 38 females), recruited through social media or flyer distribution, and submitted to online versions of the gelotophobia assessment instrument (GELOPH < 15 >) and the STAI. RESULTS: Most participants (N = 56, 86.15%) had an STAI‐T score indicative of high trait anxiety. The average GELOPH < 15 > score of the sample was 2.69 (0.65) and 39 of the subjects (60%) were considered gelotophobes. There was a strong positive correlation between the GELOPH < 15 > and STAI‐T scores but no correlation between bullying and either the STAI‐T and GELOPH < 15 > scores. However, the great majority of subjects with gelotophobia reported been previously bullied. CONCLUSION: In our sample, all gelotophobes had trait anxiety, but only a fraction of anxious subjects had gelotophobia. These preliminary findings expand on previous reports underscoring the high prevalence of mental health problems afflicting higher education students in Brazil.
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spelling pubmed-96604302022-11-14 The association between trait anxiety and the fear of being laughed at in college: A preliminary study with a Brazilian sample Rêgo, Tainá S. Pires, Diógenes E. S. Melo, Eline M. Aristizabal, Juan‐Pablo Pereira, Antonio Brain Behav Original Articles AIM: To evaluate how gelotophobia correlates with trait anxiety in a sample of Brazilian college students. METHODS: We evaluated the association of GELOPH < 15 > scores with both self‐reported experiences of bullying victimization and trait anxiety measures assessed by the State‐Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). The study consisted of a sample of 65 adult volunteers (M = 21.48, SD = 2.54 years, 38 females), recruited through social media or flyer distribution, and submitted to online versions of the gelotophobia assessment instrument (GELOPH < 15 >) and the STAI. RESULTS: Most participants (N = 56, 86.15%) had an STAI‐T score indicative of high trait anxiety. The average GELOPH < 15 > score of the sample was 2.69 (0.65) and 39 of the subjects (60%) were considered gelotophobes. There was a strong positive correlation between the GELOPH < 15 > and STAI‐T scores but no correlation between bullying and either the STAI‐T and GELOPH < 15 > scores. However, the great majority of subjects with gelotophobia reported been previously bullied. CONCLUSION: In our sample, all gelotophobes had trait anxiety, but only a fraction of anxious subjects had gelotophobia. These preliminary findings expand on previous reports underscoring the high prevalence of mental health problems afflicting higher education students in Brazil. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9660430/ /pubmed/36177971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2757 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Brain and Behavior published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rêgo, Tainá S.
Pires, Diógenes E. S.
Melo, Eline M.
Aristizabal, Juan‐Pablo
Pereira, Antonio
The association between trait anxiety and the fear of being laughed at in college: A preliminary study with a Brazilian sample
title The association between trait anxiety and the fear of being laughed at in college: A preliminary study with a Brazilian sample
title_full The association between trait anxiety and the fear of being laughed at in college: A preliminary study with a Brazilian sample
title_fullStr The association between trait anxiety and the fear of being laughed at in college: A preliminary study with a Brazilian sample
title_full_unstemmed The association between trait anxiety and the fear of being laughed at in college: A preliminary study with a Brazilian sample
title_short The association between trait anxiety and the fear of being laughed at in college: A preliminary study with a Brazilian sample
title_sort association between trait anxiety and the fear of being laughed at in college: a preliminary study with a brazilian sample
topic Original Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9660430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36177971
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2757
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