“A joke a day keeps the doctor away?” Meta‐analytical evidence of differential associations of habitual humor styles with mental health

M Schneider, M Voracek… - Scandinavian Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Humor and mental health are interconnected as is evidenced by a large number of studies.
However, associations are only small and inconsistent as the operationalization of humor …

Why are humor styles associated with well-being, and does social competence matter? Examining relations to psychological and physical well-being, reappraisal, and …

HL Fritz - Personality and individual differences, 2020 - Elsevier
Two studies examined relations of humor styles with well-being, social support, cognitive
reappraisal, and social competence. In Study 1 (N= 108), self-enhancing and affiliative …

Humor styles across 28 countries

JA Schermer, R Rogoza, MM Kwiatkowska… - Current …, 2019 - Springer
Responses to a measure of the four humor styles of affiliative, aggressive, self-enhancing,
and self-defeating from the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ; Martin et al. Journal of …

Cognitive flexibility and depression: The moderator roles of humor styles

A Altan-Atalay, M Fatih Boluvat - Current Psychology, 2024 - Springer
Humor style, which involves both adaptive and maladaptive forms, refers to the ways people
use humor in daily life. Maladaptive humor styles (self-defeating and aggressive) can be risk …

Humor and anxiety: The relationship between the comic styles, worry and general well-being

A Dionigi, M Duradoni, L Vagnoli - Personality and Individual Differences, 2021 - Elsevier
Little research was conducted to understand how comic styles relate to anxiety and well-
being. To fill this gap, the present study tested the relationship between eight comic styles …

Change in humor and sarcasm use based on anxiety and depression symptom severity during the COVID-19 pandemic

K Rothermich, A Ogunlana, N Jaworska - Journal of psychiatric research, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Humor and sarcasm may be used as potential co** strategies during
challenging times, and to improve wellbeing. We investigated changes in humor and …

[HTML][HTML] No laughing matter: How humor styles relate to feelings of loneliness and not mattering

KB MacDonald, A Kumar, JA Schermer - Behavioral Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Loneliness and feeling that one does not matter are closely linked, but further investigation
is needed to determine differentiating features. The relationship between not mattering to …

Do humour styles moderate the association between hopelessness and suicide ideation? A comparison of student and community samples

AC Drake, CR Sears - PLoS one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Research has found that humour styles can moderate the relationship between various
facets of mental health and well-being. Most of these studies have used college student …

Influence of humor expression on suicidal ideation among adolescents: mediating effects of depressive emotion and positive emotion

CY Lee, YC Chiang, A Li, X Li, YT Wu, YJ Lin, Y Zhao… - Bmc Psychiatry, 2020 - Springer
Background The occurrence and degree of suicidal ideation during the past month in
adolescents should be regarded seriously. Several studies have noted that humor …

[HTML][HTML] MODELING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN EFL INSTRUCTORS'FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING ENJOYMENT AND HUMOR STYLES

S Mehdi, SM Elahi - Journal of Language and Education, 2023 - cyberleninka.ru
Background: Positive psychology in the field of applied linguistics has recently shifted its
focus from L2 learners to L2 teachers as teachers have been revealed to be a pivotal …