The current study examines whether the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) can be assessed reliably and validly by means of a self-report instrument in di¤erent countries of the world. All items of the GELOPH 254 R. T. Proyer et al.

The present study examined the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Disgust Propensity and Sensitivity Scale-Revised (DPSS-R) in a nonclinical sample (N=340). Principal components analysis of the DPSS-R revealed a two-factor structure consisting of Disgust Propensity and Disgust Sensitivity. Although the two-factor structure converged well with prior research, four of the 16 DPSS...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused various psychological problems worldwide, such as fear, anxiety, and depression. Since the fear of can adversely affect disease management, it must be measured appropriately. This study aims to verify validity reliability Arabic version FCV-19S its relation future anxiety in Jordanians. cross-sectional was conducted from September 8 28, 2020 on a sample 760 Jord...

UNLABELLED The advent of managed care, reduction of costs, and advances in medical technology place increasing demands on anesthesiologists. Preoperative anxiety may go unnoticed in an environment that stresses increased productivity. The present study compares different methods for measuring preoperative anxiety, identifies certain patient characteristics that predispose to high anxiety, and d...

BACKGROUND According to the fear avoidance model, beliefs and thoughts can modify the outcome of patient with low back pain. The Back Belief Questionnaire (BBQ)-a 14 items scale-assesses these consequences of low back pain. OBJECTIVE To test the psychometric properties of the French version of the BBQ. METHODS The BBQ was translated using the forward-backward translation process. Throughout...

This work tests the psychometric features of the Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (WDEQ), a self-report instrument that measures the fear of childbirth, in an Italian sample. To 522 Italian primiparous women attending antenatal classes, the following assessments were administered: Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (Wijma, Wijma, & Zar, 1998), StateTrait Anxiet...

We show that leptophobic Z ′ gauge bosons occur naturally in flipped SU(5) and may shiftRb in an interesting way without upsetting the good values of Γhad and Rc. Within a string-derived version of the model, we study three possible scenarios and the constraints imposed on model building that would allow the new symmetry to remain unbroken down to low energies. Such Z ′ gauge boson has generati...

We show that leptophobic Z ′ gauge bosons occur naturally in flipped SU(5) and may resolve the Rb, Rc ‘crisis’ without upsetting the good value of Γhad. Within a string-derived version of the model, we study three possible scenarios and the constraints imposed on model building that would allow the new symmetry to remain unbroken down to low energies. Such Z ′ gauge boson has generation non-uni...

The micro-injection upsetting (MIU) experiments of commercially pure aluminium have been conducted on two groups specimens with different grain structures. One group is coarse (CG, undeformed) and the other fine (FG) achieved via 4th pass equal channel angular pressing in micro-meso/scale. were further processed by micro/meso-scale extrusion before conducting MIU for fabricating tiny pins. Micr...

The Mandaeans are a small religious community originating from Iraq and Iran who are facing the possibility of cultural extinction within the next few generations. This study aimed to examine the relationships between life experiences, psychopathology and fear of cultural extinction in Mandaean refugees. A survey was conducted of 315 adult Iraqi Mandaean refugees living in Australia. Past traum...