Examining the role of gelotophobia for willingness to communicate and second language achievement using self- and teacher ratings

Barabadi, Elyas; Brauer, Kay; Proyer, René T.; Tabar, Mohsen Rahmani

doi:10.1007/s12144-021-01846-w

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“…Although our expectations concerning the direction of the associations between communication anxiety and the IP and WTC were met in line with prior findings (e.g., Chrisman et al, 1995;Barabadi et al, 2021), the indirect effect of communication anxiety on the IP-WTC association did not reach statistical significance. Thus, although anxiety robustly related to the IP and WTC with comparatively strong correlation effects, its mediating role for the IP-WTC relationship was negligible.…”

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Impostor Phenomenon and L2 willingness to communicate: Testing communication anxiety and perceived L2 competence as mediators

Brauer

Barabadi²,

Aghaee³

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Front. Psychol.

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The Impostor Phenomenon (IP) describes experiences of perceived intellectual fraudulence despite the existence of objectively good performances, and it is a robust predictor of experiences and outcomes in higher education. We examined the role of the IP in the domain of second language (L2) acquisition by testing its relations with a robust predictor of L2 use, willingness to communicate (WTC). We collected self-reports of 400 adult Iranian L2 learners and tested the associations between the IP and WTC. As expected, we found a negative association between IP and WTC (r = −0.13). When testing a mediation model with perceived competence and communication anxiety as parallel mediators, we found evidence for full mediation via perceived competence. Our findings show the importance of considering self-evaluations in the domain of L2 acquisition. Further implications and limitations are discussed.

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Impostor Phenomenon and L2 willingness to communicate: Testing communication anxiety and perceived L2 competence as mediators

Brauer

Barabadi²,

Aghaee³

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…It recently has been widely argued that WTC is a dual construct that combines the learner's trait and state characteristics (Peng & Woodrow, 2010;Zhang et al, 2018). The dual perspective has indicated that WTC stems from the learner's trait characteristics, for example, age, gender, and personality (Barabadi et al, 2021;Fernández-García & Fonseca-Mora, 2019;MacIntyre et al, 2002), meanwhile it fluctuates in line with various situation cue, for example, interlocutors, teaching styles, and topics (Chen et al, 2022;Macintyre & Wang, 2021;Wang, Peng, & Patterson, 2021).…”

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“…Lan et al (2021) research has collected multi-university data and evidenced that the ideal L2 self is positively associated with L2 WTC. Another study used student self-ratings and teacher ratings and found that student anxiety and gelotophobia are negatively related to L2 WTC (Barabadi et al, 2021). MacIntyre and latest study has integrated the learner's trait characteristics and influential situational factors in search of mechanisms of L2 WTC.…”

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“…Research that has viewed L2 WTC as a fluctuating state has primarily explored the relationships between L2 WTC and situational factors such as activity types, topics, interlocutors, classroom climate, class sizes, and teaching styles (Cao, 2014;Macintyre & Wang, 2021;Pawlak & Mystkowska-Wiertelak, 2015). In a different vein, some research has tended to consider L2 WTC a constant individual trait and studied its antecedents such as gender, age, cultural background, anxiety, motivation, and personality (Asmali, Bilki, & Duban, 2015;Barabadi, Brauer, Proyer, & Tabar, 2021;Lan, Nikitina, & Woo, 2021;MacIntyre, Baker, Clément, & Donovan, 2002). However, the understanding of L2 WTC at the trait level has been comparatively limited.…”

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Communication in a second language and individual differences: Effects of student age, gender, and socioeconomic status

Zheng

Li²

2022

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It has been widely argued that willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2) is a dual construct of the learner’s trait and state. This study aimed to explore the relationships between trait-level antecedents (students’ demographic features) and their L2 WTC. A sample of 1,502 university students was recruited to participate in this study. Data on their age, gender, and family socioeconomic status (SES) were collected. A questionnaire of L2 WTC was adopted to measure the participants’ WTC in meaning-focused activities and WTC in form-focused activities. A path model was tested via structural equation modelling， and significant relationships between student demographic features (age, gender, and SES) and L2 WTC were observed. The major findings were that male students had higher WTC in meaning-focused activities, but female students showed higher WTC in form-focused activities, and student age was negatively related to WTC in meaning-focused activities. Keywords: Willingness to communicate, second language acquisition, demographic feature, higher education;

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“…Also, gelotophobia is not culturally or geographically limited, but has been identified across more than 70 countries (e.g., Proyer et al, 2009 ; Vagnoli et al, 2021 ). Research has shown that gelotophobia plays a role in important life domains; for example, in social and romantic relationships (e.g., greater likelihood of being single; predicting low relationship satisfaction in oneself and one’s partner; and attachment styles; e.g., Brauer & Proyer, 2018 , 2020a ; Brauer et al, 2020 ; Canestrari, Arroyo, et al, 2021 ; Canestrari, Bongelli, et al, 2021 ; Ruch & Stahlmann, 2020 ) and in school (e.g., predicting experiences of victimization in bullying-type situations and lower willingness to speak in front of classmates; e.g., Barabadi et al, 2021 ; Proyer et al, 2013 ). There is also increasing interest in the study of gelotophobia in samples from Italy.…”

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Fear of being laughed at in Italian healthcare workers: Testing associations with humor styles and coping humor

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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.

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Examining the role of gelotophobia for willingness to communicate and second language achievement using self- and teacher ratings

Cited by 11 publications

References 84 publications

Impostor Phenomenon and L2 willingness to communicate: Testing communication anxiety and perceived L2 competence as mediators

Impostor Phenomenon and L2 willingness to communicate: Testing communication anxiety and perceived L2 competence as mediators

Communication in a second language and individual differences: Effects of student age, gender, and socioeconomic status

Fear of being laughed at in Italian healthcare workers: Testing associations with humor styles and coping humor

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