No Laughing Matter: How Humor Styles Relate to Feelings of Loneliness and Not Mattering [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2020 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 others (anti-mattering) and loneliness was explored by assessing how ...
Kristi Baerg MacDonald +2 more
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Does the Relation Between Humor Styles and Subjective Well-Being Vary Across Culture and Age? A Meta-Analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 An earlier review (Schneider et al., 2018) examined the connection between humor styles and mental health. The present article supplements and extends Schneider et al.'s review by surveying a broader concept, subjective well-being (SWB), and ...
Feng Jiang +4 more
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White-Matter Structural Connectivity in Relation to Humor Styles: An Exploratory Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 To investigate the potential relationship between white matter (WM) microstructure and humor styles, diffusion tensor images of brain WM and humor style tendencies were obtained from thirty healthy adults.
Ching-Lin Wu +12 more
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Humor as a double-edged weapon in psychopathology: light and dark humor styles, coping, and personality in police mental health [PDF]
Journal of Occupational Medicine and ToxicologyBackground Police officers are at higher risk for mental health issues. Research that advances knowledge on job demands and resources remains crucial. Research on humor is sparse, despite it being commonplace in the workplace, and an accessible resource.
Royce Anders +2 more
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Reactions to Humorous Comments and Implicit Theories of Humor Styles [PDF]
Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 2010 The first two studies investigated reactions to several different types of humorous comments. Participants indicated they would be significantly more likely to continue interacting with a friend who used adaptive self-enhancing or affiliative humor ...
Kuiper, Nicholas A. +2 more
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Humor Styles in Healthcare Professionals: A Correlational Study.
Holistic Nursing Practice20.500.12530/87910Using humor as a caregiving strategy can help professionals perceive daily and work-related events from a more optimistic and light-hearted perspective.
González-Ordi, Héctor +4 more
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Alcohol dependence and humor styles
Current Psychology, 2019 This study explores the relationship between alcohol dependence and humor styles based on a large data set of 2752 adults. Participants completed a humor styles questionnaire, assessing four dimensions: affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self ...
Schermer, Julie Aitken +2 more
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Variable Effects of Humor Styles on Organizational Outcomes
Psychological Reports, 2011 The relationship between individual humor styles and several organizational variables was investigated: stress, satisfaction with coworkers, team cooperation, and organizational commitment.
Eric J. Romero, Lucy A. Arendt
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Longitudinal Associations Between Humor Styles and Psychosocial Adjustment in Adolescence. [PDF]
Eur J Psychol, 2016 This study assessed the concurrent and prospective associations between psychosocial adjustment and four humor styles, two of which are adaptive (affiliative, self-enhancing) and two maladaptive (aggressive, self-defeating).
Fox CL, Hunter SC, Jones SE.
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Cognitive Distortions, Humor Styles, and Depression. [PDF]
Eur J Psychol, 2016 Cognitive distortions are negative biases in thinking that are theorized to represent vulnerability factors for depression and dysphoria. Despite the emphasis placed on cognitive distortions in the context of cognitive behavioural theory and practice, a paucity of research has examined the mechanisms through which they impact depressive symptomatology.
Rnic K, Dozois DJ, Martin RA.
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