Mindfulness and self-compassion are increasingly coming into mainstream psychological research in the Western world as they correlate with and predict various aspects of mental health and positivity. However, little is known about their relationship to another construct that is also associated with well-being, that is, humor. The unique contribution of the present study is in exploring whether mindfulness and self-compas- sion would predict the use of adaptive and maladaptive humor styles and whether this prediction will be the same across cultures. 90 U.S. and 106 Russian college students responded to a survey consisting of three measures: Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS; Brown & Ryan, 2003), Self-Compassion Scale-Short Form (SCS-SF; Raes, Pommier, Neff, & Van Gucht, 2011), and Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ; Martin, Puhlik-Doris, Larsen, Gray, & Weir, 2003). Our findings suggest that mind- fulness and self-compassion can serve as predictors of humor styles, that is, more mind- ful and self-compassionate participants tended to use more adaptive humor styles and less maladaptive styles. However, the contribution of these two variables to the vari- ance in humor styles depended on the culture.

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The article presents the empirical study results of how responsibility effects professional burnout in law enforcement staff. The responsibility was studied in line with the systemic functional approach to the personality traits study by A.I. Krupnov with regard to eight components and sixteen variables. The study involved law enforcement staff who have service experience of up to five and more years. The findings allowed us to determine professional burnout reasons in staff with shorter service experience. They are influenced by responsibility variables characterized by personal motivation focus (self-centeredness), activity (energy), external control locus (externality) - Psychoemotional Exhaustion scale, avoiding responsible decisions (anergy) - Depersonalization scale, personally centered goals and personal difficulties (personally meaningful goals and personal difficulties) - Personal Achievements Reduction scale. The professional burnout of the staff with service experience of more than five years are influenced by responsibility variables such as energy and asteness (activity and negative emotions) - correlation with the Psychoemotional Exhaustion scale, subjectivity - with the Depersonalization scale, personally centered goals (personally meaningful goals), personal difficulties variable - with the Personal Achievements Reduction scale. The self-centeredness and externality (personally centered motivation and external control locus) variables show how responsibility effects professional burnout in shorter experienced staff. These variables affect psychoemotional exhaustion. Whereas the staff who have service experience of more than five years are emotionally exhausted by negative emotions increase (asteness)when implementing the responsibility. Based on the research findings, recommendations were made to prevent professional burnout and harmonize responsibility as a personality trait.

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