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Psychological health and sense of humor.
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Scores on the Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale are shown to be related positively to a number of factors associated with psychological health, and negatively with signs of psychological distress such as depression.Abstract:
Scores on the Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale (MSHS) are shown to be related positively to a number of factors associated with psychological health, such as optimism and self esteem, and negatively with signs of psychological distress such as depression Humor is a multidimensional construct that seems to be intimately related to quality of liferead more
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Individual differences in uses of humor and their relation to psychological well-being: Development of the Humor Styles Questionnaire
TL;DR: The Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ) as mentioned in this paper assesses four dimensions relating to individual differences in uses of humor: relatively benign uses of humour to enhance the self (Self-enhancing), use of humor to enhance relationships at the expense of self (Aggressive), and self-defeating.
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Sexual selection and animal personality
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Humor, stress, and coping strategies
TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship between sense of humor, stress, and coping strategies and found that the high humor group was more likely to use positive reappraisal and problem-solving coping strategies than the low humor group.
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Humour as emotion regulation: the differential consequences of negative versus positive humour.
TL;DR: The present research predicted that positive (good-natured) humour would be more effective at regulating negative emotions than negative (mean-spirited) humour, and showed that positive humour was more successful at down- Regulating negative and up-regulating positive emotion.
BRIEF REPORT Humour as emotion regulation: The differential consequences of negative versus positive humour
TL;DR: This article found that positive humour was more successful at regulating negative and up-regulating positive emotion than negative (mean-spirited) humour, while negative humour was ineffective at regulating positive emotion.
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