Highly sensitive persons, caregiving strategies and humour: the case of Italian and Israeli medical clowns
| Autor: | Alon Goldberg, Alberto Dionigi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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lcsh:Language and Literature
Cultural Studies Linguistics and Language Communication media_common.quotation_subject humour 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology sensitivity caregiving strategies eye diseases 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Highly sensitive fluids and secretions personality lcsh:P Personality 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences sense organs medical clowns Psychology Applied Psychology media_common Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | The European Journal of Humour Research, Vol 7, Iss 4, Pp 1-15 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2307-700X |
| Popis: | The medical clown is a healthcare practitioner whose character is strictly associated with the performer’s own personality. In this study, the relationships between level of sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), caregiving strategies and humour in Italian and Israeli clowns were compared. Participants were 159 medical clowns (97 Italian and 62 Israeli), ranging from 22 to 74 years of age, who completed a demographic questionnaire, the self-reported Highly Sensitive Person Scale, the Caregiving Strategies Scale and the BenCor. Results showed that higher SPS was related to higher hyperactivation and deactivation, and that hyperactivation was related to lower benevolent humour and greater corrective humour. Hyperactivation negatively predicts benevolent humour but positively predicts corrective humour, beyond the effect of SPS. Deactivation had no relationship to either benevolent or corrective humour. The results are also discussed in reference to differences between the two groups and to previous studies conducted with general populations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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