Gender differences in humour styles of young adolescents: Empathy as a mediator

Wu, Ching Lin; Lin, Hsin Yi; Chen, Hsueh-Chih

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.05.018

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“…Complementarily, this study also allows us to examine the empathy–humour styles and empathy–PWB relationships. With regard to the former relation, our findings on perspective‐taking widely replicated earlier studies conducted outside the healthcare context . In particular, perspective‐taking showed a moderate positive correlation with self‐enhancing humour, as well as small correlations with high affiliative and low aggressive humour styles.…”

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“…Additionally, we wondered whether these potential repercussions of these humour styles on nursing professionals’ PWB would go beyond the influence of other well‐studied dispositions in the nursing setting, such as empathy. Given that prior studies have shown that empathy and humour‐related dispositions are intercorrelated , we considered that it would be advisable to obtain empirical evidence supporting that the effects of humour and empathy on PWB do not overlap. To the best of our knowledge, no studies have previously tested whether the humour styles’ effects on PWB can be isolated from the influence of empathy—a construct robustly related to PWB.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, these empathy‐related traits are intercorrelated with humour styles. Researchers have found that perspective‐taking is mainly related to high affiliative and self‐enhancing humour and low aggressive humour, and personal distress to low self‐enhancing and aggressive humour . Altogether, it would be advisable to test the specific contribution of humour beyond these empathy‐related traits.…”

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The effect of humour on nursing professionals’ psychological well‐being goes beyond the influence of empathy: a cross‐sectional study

Navarro‐Carrillo

Torres‐Marín

Corbacho‐Lobato

et al. 2019

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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Scand J Caring Sci; 2020; 34: 474-483 The effect of humour on nursing professionals' psychological well-being goes beyond the influence of empathy: a cross-sectional study Background: Prior research has underlined the meaningful function of humour in nursing settings. Nonetheless, most of the empirical evidence on humour and nursing derives from approaches that mainly considered the potential beneficial effects of humour, neglecting potential detrimental effects of the dark side of humour. Moreover, little is known about whether the specific repercussions of humour on healthcare professionals' well-being would go beyond empathy-a construct robustly related to psychological well-being. Aims: To examine whether distinctive humour styles (affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive and self-defeating) are differentially associated with the psychological well-being of nursing professionals. Importantly, we also analysed whether these potential humour effects go over and above the influence of empathy-related traits (perspective-taking and personal distress). Method: A cross-sectional, descriptive correlational design was used. A convenience sample of 104 nursing professionals with a minimum work experience of one year was recruited. Results: Our results revealed that a greater inclination to affiliative and self-enhancing humour styles was strongly related to higher scores on happiness, sociability, hope and life satisfaction among nursing professionals. Concerning maladaptive humour styles, aggressive humour was related to low life satisfaction and high nursing stress. By contrast, self-defeating humour-a theoretically detrimental humour style-was related to higher scores on health among these professionals. These effects emerged even after controlling for the influence of demographics (i.e., gender, age and years of experience), perspective-taking and personal distress. Conclusions: Our results suggest that adaptive humour styles may promote positive indicators of well-being, but they might not protect against negative indicators. Moreover, differential effects of maladaptive humour styles emerged. Whereas aggressive humoristic expressions can be interpreted as a sign of a poor psychological functioning, self-defeating humour may boost positive psychological outcomes among nursing professionals. These data can help to design more efficient humour-based intervention programmes aimed at minimising potential negative consequences of nursing activity.

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The effect of humour on nursing professionals’ psychological well‐being goes beyond the influence of empathy: a cross‐sectional study

Navarro‐Carrillo

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Corbacho‐Lobato

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“…The relationships between humor styles and gender have been found to vary with cultural differences, across cultural influences and social norms (Martin, 2007). Perhaps it is these cultural differences that lead males from other cultures, such as Taiwan (Wu, Lin, & Chen, 2016), Belgium (Saroglou & Scariot, 2002) and Lebanon (Kazarian & Martin, 2004) to report self-defeating humor more frequently than Humor Styles and Empathy in Junior-School Children 160…”

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Humor styles and empathy in junior-school children

Halfpenny

James

2020

Eur. J. Psychol.

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Humor is a complex phenomenon. For one individual a joke may be perceived as comical, yet for another, the same joke may be deemed completely inappropriate. The appropriate use of humor is perhaps dependent on how a humorist relates to, understands and can empathize with their audience. Thus, the present research aimed to determine whether empathy is related to junior-school children’s use of different humor styles. It has been proposed that four styles of humor exist, two of which are thought to be adaptive (affiliative and self-enhancing) and two of which are thought to be maladaptive (aggressive and self-defeating). However, research exploring the role of humor styles in younger children’s development has been limited. To investigate this the Humor Styles Questionnaire for young children (HSQ-Y) and the Thinking and Feeling Questionnaire were administered to 214 UK children aged 9-11 years old. Correlational analyses revealed that self-enhancing humor is associated with cognitive empathy, affective empathy and sympathy, affiliative humor is positively associated with cognitive empathy specifically and aggressive humor is negatively associated with affective empathy and sympathy. Possible explanations for these associations are explored, with a consideration of the direction for future research in this predominantly unexplored field of study.

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“…As male prefer to use more of unfriendly humour, aggressive and selfenhancing humour, whereas females are higher on empathy for that females use more perspective-taking and empathic concern which are positively linked with positive humour styles and negatively linked to negative humour styles. Research also found that empathy act as mediator between humor styles and gender as one's ability to perceive the others feeling and empathetic feelings act as ability to utilize the different humour styles (Wu, Lin, & Chen, 2016).…”

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Sex Differences in Displaying Level of Empathy in Pakistani Adults

Iqbal

Aslam

Masroor

2017

pjpbs

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Empathy is a distinctive capacity of the human being in which a person feels every aspect of others as his/her own. The objective of the research is to find out empathy in the adults of Pakistan. Is its level increasing or decreasing with time and to explore that whether this type of human emotion is much prevalent in males or in females. . Research shows that pro- social behavior and role taking has positive relation with empathy. Total one hundred and fifty (N=150) individuals with age ranged from 19-40 participated in this research study. About 96 were females and 54 were males. This sample was collected from Rawalpindi and Islamabad. A scale is used to measure empathy level in adults. Results indicate that there are no significant differences in adults of different age groups. It was found that females scored higher on empathy scale as compared to males. Implications of the research findings for future research on Pakistani adolescents are discussed.

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Gender differences in humour styles of young adolescents: Empathy as a mediator

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The effect of humour on nursing professionals’ psychological well‐being goes beyond the influence of empathy: a cross‐sectional study

The effect of humour on nursing professionals’ psychological well‐being goes beyond the influence of empathy: a cross‐sectional study

Humor styles and empathy in junior-school children

Sex Differences in Displaying Level of Empathy in Pakistani Adults

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