Personality, Humor Styles and Happiness: Happy People Have Positive Humor Styles [PDF]
Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2016 The present study examined the relationships between four personality traits, humor styles, and happiness. Replicating previous research, happiness was positively correlated with four personality traits: extraversion, locus of control, self-esteem, and ...
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Humor Styles and Empathy in Junior-School Children [PDF]
Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2020 Humor is a complex phenomenon. For one individual a joke may be perceived as comical, yet for another, the same joke may be deemed completely inappropriate.
Caitlin Charlotte Halfpenny +1 more
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Children’s Understanding of Self-Focused Humor Styles [PDF]
Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2016 It has been proposed that four main styles of humor exist, two which are thought to be adaptive (affiliative, self-enhancing) and two which are thought to be maladaptive (aggressive, self-defeating).
Lucy Amelia James, Claire Louise Fox
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Beyond humor styles: the nature of humor types and differences in basic personality traits from Zuckerman’s Alternative Five-Factor Model [PDF]
Current Issues in Personality Psychology, 2023 Background Findings show that the complex nature of humor and its personality basis can be more comprehensively understood if humor styles are analyzed simultaneously within humor types, rather than separately.
Đorđe Čekrlija +2 more
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The German Version of the Humor Styles Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties and Overlap With Other Styles of Humor [PDF]
Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2016 The Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ; Martin et al., 2003) is one of the most frequently used questionnaires in humor research and has been adapted to several languages. The HSQ measures four humor styles (affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-
Willibald Ruch, Sonja Heintz
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Humor Styles Are Related to Loneliness Across 15 Countries [PDF]
Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2022 The relationships between self-report loneliness and the four humor styles of affiliative, aggressive, self-defeating, and self-enhancing were investigated in 15 countries (N = 4,701). Because loneliness has been suggested to be both commonly experienced
Julie Aitken Schermer +18 more
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Adaptive and maladaptive humor styles are closely associated with burnout and professional fulfillment in members of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology [PDF]
Gynecologic Oncology Reports, 2022 Differences in individual humor styles (adaptive: affiliative, self-enhancing; maladaptive: aggressive, self-defeating) are associated with various wellness measures.
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Relation Between Humor Styles and Psychopathological Symptoms in Healthcare Professionals: A Cross-Sectional Study [PDF]
Nursing ReportsBackground/Objectives: Being a healthcare professional often involves exposure to complex situations that can contribute to the development of psychological problems.
Miriam Leñero-Cirujano +8 more
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Laughing over a Drink: Exploring the Relationship Between Humor Styles and Drinking Behavior [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesHumor is a key component of social relationships and has been linked to both positive health outcomes and detrimental effects, depending on the style of humor employed. However, its associations with alcohol-related behaviors remain largely underexplored.
Giulia Baldacci +5 more
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Affective Style, Humor Styles and Happiness
Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2014 The present study examined the relationships between dispositional approach and avoidance motives, humor styles, and happiness. In keeping with previous research, approach motives and the two positive humor styles (self-enhancing and affiliative ...
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