Humor is a strategy that healthcare workers can use to help patients cope with stress and manage complex situations. However, people differ in how they deal with laughter. Our aim was to investigate gelotophobia (fear of being laughed at) among healthcare professionals and its relationships with humor styles and inclinations to use humor for coping. A sample of 550 Italian healthcare-workers was assigned to three groups: Professional Hospital Clown Group (PHCG, people who trained as professional clown in health-care setting), Humor Training Group (HTG, people who attended health-care relevant training courses related to humor), or Control Group (CG, people who attended healthcare or professional training courses not related to humor), and provided self-reports in the GELOPH < 15 > , the Coping Humor Scale, and the Humor Style Questionnaire. Participants from humor-related interventions, in particular PHCG, were lower in gelotophobia and used humor as a coping strategy. Gelotophobia correlated negatively with coping humor, and affiliative and self-enhancing humor styles. We discuss the findings with regard to the use of humor and laughter in healthcare settings.
L’epidemia da Covid-19 ha alterato significativamente l’apprendimento e lo sviluppo nei bambini in età scolare. Lo studio intende esplorare le funzioni esecutive prima e dopo la quarantena, indagando il possibile effetto di un intervento di un laboratorio di scacchi. Sono stati coinvolti 83 bambini: 39 (gruppo controllo-GC) hanno svolto le attività scolastiche in didattica a distanza; 44 (gruppo sperimentale-GS) hanno svolto didattica a distanza e un laboratorio di scacchi online. I genitori hanno compilato il questionario BRIEF per la valutazione delle funzioni esecutive prima dell’attivazione del laboratorio (marzo 2020) e al termine dell’anno scolastico (giugno 2020). I risultati evidenziano nel GC un aumento della frequenza di rischio nell’acquisizione delle funzioni esecutive (monitoraggio del compito, inibizione e regolazione comportamentale); al contrario, tali aree risultano migliorate nel GS. I risultati sostengono il laboratorio scacchi come utile strumento di supporto all’apprendimento e allo sviluppo di alcune funzioni esecutive.
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