Gelotophobia, gelotophilia and katagelasticism in female patients with non-psychotic mental disorders

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The research objective was to study the features of attitude to humor and laughter (gelotophobia, gelotophilia and katagelasticism) in female patients with non-psychotic mental disorders.

Methods. The study included 85 female patients with non-psychotic mental disorders. They were examined using PhoPhiKat-30 questionnaire.

Results. Amount of patients with gelotophobia in this group exceeds its prevalence in a sample of mentally healthy individuals, but is lowest compared to data from other clinical studies. In most of patients the normative values of gelotophilia and katagelasticism were determined, but some of patients had its lower values. Positive correlations of fear of being laughed at with gelotophilia and katagelasticism were found, and a link between katagelasticism and gelotophilia was found. A positive link between gelotophobia and the number of hospitalizations in a psychiatric hospital has been identified. In addition, gelotophobia is more pronounced in those with secondary education and widowed.

Conclusions. Gelotophobia among individuals with non-psychotic disorders reflects their “borderline” character between the norm and pathology. Katagelasticism and gelotophilia in mental disorders are rather declining. Gelotophobia has nosological specificity and can be a diagnostically important indicator reflecting not only disorders, but also the preservation of the emotional and personal sphere of patients.

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Denis A. Shunenkov

Ivanovo State Medical Academy of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Author for correspondence.
Email: voksined@yandex.ru

graduate student of the Department of Psychiatry, Narcology, Psychotherapy

Russian Federation, 153012, Ivanovo, Sheremetevsky pr., 8

Alexey V. Khudyakov

Ivanovo State Medical Academy of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Email: app237110@yandex.ru

доктор медицинских наук, заведующий кафедрой психиатрии, наркологии, психотерапии

Russian Federation, 153012, Ivanovo, Sheremetevsky pr., 8

Elena M. Ivanova

Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University; Mental Health Research Center

Email: ivalenka13@gmail.com

candidate of psychological sciences, head of the department of clinical psychology; Senior Researcher, Department of Medical Psychology

Russian Federation, 117997, Moscow, st. Ostrovityanova, 1; 115230, Moscow, Kashirskoe sh., 34

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