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Correlation between Humorous Coping Style and Health
Psychological Reports, 1992A significant correlation of −0.34 was found between scores on the Situational Humor Response Questionnaire and a measure of perceived physical health for 51 college students. Mean scores on the questionnaire were similar to those of the original standardization population.
J L, Carroll, J L, Shmidt
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Humor Styles in Younger Children
2019The humor styles approach assumes that humor can be adaptive and maladaptive, with four main styles of humor reflecting how we use humor in every-day life: Affiliative, Self-enhancing, Self-defeating, and Aggressive. Through a series of studies, the adult HSQ was first adapted for children aged 11–16 years and then for younger children aged 8–11 years.
Lucy Amelia James, Claire Louise Fox
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Plain Humor: New England Style
The New England Quarterly, 1970ALTHOUGH Yankee humor is plentifully mentioned and -lillustrated in our literature, I do not recall any discussion of the historical paradox which it involves. How did this subdivision of the Anglo-Saxon world, characterized by delight in the perception and witty declaration of the incongruities of people, derive over a short period from the American ...
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Humorous Responses to Interpersonal Complaints: Effects of Humor Style and Nonverbal Expression
The Journal of Psychology, 2012Based on disposition theory (Zillmann & Cantor, 1996), this study assessed reactions to vignettes in which individuals humorously respond to complaints from their partners. Vignettes varied based upon the sex and affective expression (positive/negative) of the speaker, and style of humor used (affiliative, aggressive, self-enhancing, self-defeating ...
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“Humor Style” and Understanding of Editorial Satire
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1990Scores for 106 college students on a “Humor Style” scale were not related to the understanding of three editorial satires. Ratings of satires' funniness and interestingness tend to correlate, providing evidence of a general “satire appreciation” factor in college students. The items in the “Humor Style” scale seem to measure humor style.
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Humor and shyness: The relation between humor styles and shyness
Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, 2006AbstractThe Shyness Scale and Humor Styles Questionnaire were given to 174 subjects (69 male, 105 female). There was a significant negative correlation between shyness and affiliative humor for the total group, which was explained by the inability of shy people to relax enough in social situations to use this kind of humor.
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