Two studies investigated the relationship between wisdom, humor styles, comic and wellbeing. In Study 1, 325 English-speaking college students completed Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale (SAWS) Humor Styles Questionnaire. As predicted, overall as well all five wisdom subscales, was positively correlated with adaptive styles. Furthermore, SAWS subscale most strongly 2, 189 German-speaking university ad...

a Management and Organizational Studies, Faculty of Social Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5C2, Canada b Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada c Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, QLD, Australia d Addictions Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's Col...

The authors examined how certain humor styles mediate the relations between self-evaluative standards (which form the primary evaluative component of the self-schema) and psychological well-being. As predicted, greater endorsement of positive self-evaluative standards led to the use of more affiliative humor, which, in turn, led to higher levels of social self-esteem and lower levels of depress...

The present study examined the relationships between the broad, multidimensional view of humor using the factors of the Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale (MSHS) and all of the Five Factor Theory (FFT) personality domains and specific facets. Results indicated a number of significant personality facets related to the Humor Production and Social Use factor. The strongest were Assertiveness, A...

Since the start of the 21st century, the investigation of various psychological aspects of humor and laughter has become an increasingly prominent topic of research. This growth can be attributed, in no small part, to the pioneering and creative work on humor and laughter conducted by Professor Rod Martin. Dr. Martin's research interests in humor and laughter began in the early 1980s and contin...

Abstract A correlational study ( n = 180 adults) in the United States tested hypothesis that self-directed humor styles predict emotional responses to COVID-19, specifically stress and hopelessness, turn engagement protective behaviors. Results from a sequential mediation analysis supported our hypotheses. First, extent people have self-enhancing style they perceived less hopelessness associate...

Throughout the literature, humor has demonstrated positive effects on memory and learning, as well as physiological and psychological well being. Research has described improvements in communication and trust through the use of humor in the nurse-patient relationship. The utilization of humor with certain populations, including those with anxiety disorders, cancer patients and mood disorders ha...

Previous studies found that humor and empathy are associated with interpersonal relationships. Particularly, Hampes (2001) reported that humor styles and empathy had a positive correlation in adults. The purpose of the study is to explore the link between empathy and humor use in teenagers and to investigate if gender differences exist as well. 115 adolescents between 11-12 years old participat...