An Examination of the Mediating effect on the influence of the Fear of Being Laughed at on Challenge-Confronting Tendencies and Performances

• Main Authors: LIU, TZU-HAO, 劉子豪
• Other Authors: HUANG, PO-SHENG
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36198113486758114308

碩士 === 玄奘大學 === 應用心理學系碩士在職專班 === 105 === The past studies found that the characteristic of the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) would have a negative impact on student’s challenge- confronting tendencies. The main purpose of this research is to clarify the relationship between the fear of being laughed at and challenge-confronting tendencies and behaviors, and to further examine the mediating mechanism of the fear of being laughed to challenge-confronting tendencies and behaviors by using threatening feeling, self-awareness of insight ability and fear of failure as mediator variables. The research uses the questionnaire survey procedure and 125 students were selected as the research subjects. The first week was used to measure the degree of the fear of being laughed at of the students and the next week measured the students' threatening feeling, self-awareness of insight ability, fear of failure and challenge-confronting tendencies. Then the participants took a test of the insight-creativity task as a measurement of the challenge-confronting performances. First of all, The results showed that the fear of being laughed at does have a negative influence on challenge-confronting tendencies of students, but it doesn’t have an effect on challenge-confronting performances. That is to say, there is no direct relationship between fear of being laughed at and challenge-confronting performances. Second, the results of the study found that the threatening feeling has a completely mediating effect on the influence of the fear of being laughed at on challenge-confronting tendencies and self-awareness of insight ability has a completely mediating effect on the influence of the fear of being laughed at on challenge-confronting tendencies, too; however, fear of failure has no mediating effect on the influence of the fear of being laughed at on challenge-confronting tendencies. Hence, this study found that fear of being laughed at to the challenge-confronting behaviors itself does not have the reciable effect, so it is also difficult to explore its mediating effect. Finally, this study discusses the implications of the results and provides some practical advices and recommendations for future research.