Humour styles, personality and psychological well-being: What’s humour got to do with it?
European Journal of Humour Research, 2013 The Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ) by Martin et al. (2003) measures four humour styles, namely affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive and self-defeating. In contrast to former humour instruments, the HSQ has strong relations to various measures of psychological well-being. However, its incremental validity in relation to basic personality traits has
Ruch, Willibald, Heintz, Sonja
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It’s the way he tells them (and who is listening):men’s dominance is positively correlated with their preference for jokes told by dominant-sounding men [PDF]
, 2015 While much research has explored humorous exchange in relation to mate choice, recent perspectives have emphasized the importance of humor for monitoring interest within social partnerships more generally.
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Journal of Data Mining & Digital HumanitiesHumour styles can have either a negative or a positive impact on well-being. Given the importance of these styles to mental health, significant research has been conducted on their automatic identification. However, the automated machine learning models used for this purpose are black boxes, making their prediction decisions opaque.
Mary Ogbuka Kenneth +2 more
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Humour Runs through the Multicoloured Mosaic of Neuropsychotherapy: Scoping Review
Neurologijos seminaraiBackground. The investigation is devoted to explore the possibilities of humour to treat neuropsychiatric disorders which, in the last decade, have significantly increased. The aim of the study is to describe the growing investigations, in which various
M. Šeduikienė, V. Matonis
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A sociocultural analysis of stigma and humour in psychiatry [PDF]
Scripta MedicaIn psychology and psychiatry, humour has long been used as a therapeutic tool, a coping strategy and a technique for societal criticism. Although laughter is considered a sign of health, it is paradoxically often used in the context of mental illness ...
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Organising Therapists’ Emotional-Social Skills: Are Therapists that Different? : A thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology at Massey University, Palmerston North New Zealand [PDF]
, 2016 Wampold and Imel (2015) argue that therapeutic outcomes may be more dependent on variables associated with therapists than treatment systems. An element of these therapist variables include the emotional and social skills of therapists, however, to date,
Marwick, Andreas
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The 'Humour' element in engineering lectures across cultures:An approach to pragmatic annotation [PDF]
, 2016 Humour is one of the most difficult pragmatic devices for lecturers and students to engage with, and for researchers to identify systematically. Humour does not always travel well across cultures.
Alsop, Sian
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Churchill Show: Transgressing language codes and upsetting stereotypes
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2021 Cultural productions on television and/or online platforms are immensely prolific at expressing the peoples’ every day and the historical. They provide platforms on which actors express themselves on their own terms, in their own language codes and ...
Patrick Chesi Lumasia
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Communication of characteristics with sense of humour and characteristics of hardiness at students [PDF]
, 2015 The article presents data of theoretical bases of hardiness and sense of humour. The results of empiric research are presented on Ural State Pedagogical University students (n = 60 students, 17–22 years).
Borisov, G. I. +3 more
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Investigation of School Administrators’ Humour Styles and School Climate according to Teacher Perceptions [PDF]
Acta Educationis Generalis, 2020 Abstract Introduction: This research aims to determine the humour behaviours of school administrators according to teacher perception and to reveal the relationship between humour behaviours and school climate. Methods:
Şahin, Fatih, Tabak, Hasan
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