The effectiveness of humor skills training in changing positive and negative affects evoked during conflict in coples with secure-insecure attatchment style

The use of humour in couple relationships is one of the constructive methods that help them to regulate their emotion. The aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of humour communication skills training in changing positive and negative emotions evoked during the conflict in couples with secure-insecure anxious attachment style. The present study is an experimental design with two experimental and control groups in which each group was evaluated four times. The statistical population in this study includes all couples living in Tehran in 1398. The sample size consisted of 20 couples (10 couples with a secure-insecure anxious attachment style for the experimental group and 10 couples with the same attachment style for the control group) who they were purposefully selected based on the including and excluding criteria, to participate in the study and then randomly assigned to the control and experimental groups and evaluated through a positive and negative affect scale and adult attachment questionnaire. 4*2 between-group repeated measure analysis of variance results showed that positive humour training reduces negative emotions (F = 38.97, P <0.05, Ƞ = 0.51) evoked during the conflict in couples with secure-insecure anxious attachment style, It also increases positive emotions (F = 47.95, P <0.05, Ƞ = 0.56). Based on the results of the present study, in order to reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions during the conflict in couples, counsellors and therapists are advised to teach their clients the skills of positive humour and avoidance of negative humour.