@misc{10481/80872,
year = {2023},
month = {1},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/80872},
abstract = {The PhoPhiKat-45 measures three dispositions toward ridicule and laughter, including
gelotophobia (i.e., the fear of being laughed at), gelotophilia (i.e., the joy of being laughed at),
and katagelasticism (i.e., the joy of laughing at others). Despite numerous cultural adaptations,
there is a paucity of cross-cultural studies investigating measurement invariance of this measure.
Undergraduate students from a Canadian university (N = 1467; 71.4% females) and 14 universities
in Taiwan (N = 1274; 64.6% females) completed the English and Chinese PhoPhiKat-45 measures,
respectively. Item response theory and differential item functioning analyses demonstrated that most
items were well-distributed across the latent continuum. Five of 45 items were flagged for DIF, but all
values had negligible effect sizes (McFadden’s pseudo R2 < 0.13). The Canadian sample was further
subdivided into subsamples who identified as European White born in Canada (n = 567) and Chinese
born in China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan (n = 180). In the subgroup analyses, no evidence of DIF was
found. Findings support the utility of this measure across these languages and samples.},
publisher = {MDPI},
keywords = {Laughter},
keywords = {Ridicule},
keywords = {Humour},
keywords = {Cross-cultural differences},
keywords = {Differential item functioning},
keywords = {Gelotophobia},
keywords = {Gelotophilia},
keywords = {Katagelasticism},
title = {Cultural Differences in How People Deal with Ridicule and Laughter: Differential Item Functioning between the Taiwanese Chinese and Canadian English Versions of the PhoPhiKat-45},
doi = {10.3390/ejihpe13020019},
author = {Lau, Chloe and Torres Marín, Jorge},
}