A harmonic mapping \(f=h+{\overline{g}}\) in \({\mathbb {D}}\) is \(\varphi \) -normal if \(f^{\#}(z)={\mathcal {O}}(|\varphi (z)|), \text { as } |z|\rightarrow 1^-,\) where \(f^{\#}(z)={(|h'(z)|+|g'(z)|)}/{(1+|f(z)|^2)}.\) In this paper, we establish several sufficient conditions for harmonic mappings to be \(\varphi \) -normal. We also extend the five-point theorem of Lappan for \(\varphi \) -normal harmonic mappings.