Humor styles, emotion regulation and subjective well-being in young adults

Amjad, Arooba; Dasti, Rabia

doi:10.1007/s12144-020-01127-y

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“…The findings revealed that adaptive humour styles were significantly positively related to adaptive emotion regulation and positive subjective well-being, while non-adaptive humour styles were positively related to non-adaptive emotion regulation and negatively related to subjective well-being [59].…”

Section: Styles Of Humour Vs Therapymentioning

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Positive and negative aspects of employing humour in psychotherapy

Kucharski

2023

Arch Psych Psych

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The purpose of this article is to analyse the phenomenon of humour in therapy. Rod Martin [1] defines humour as a fundamentally positive emotion referred to as amusement, triggered by cognitive processes of appreciation of perceived amusing stimuli and non-threatening, funny incongruence, accompanied by specific facial and vocal expressions of laughter. Humour in therapy can play a significant role. It might be a form of therapy, one of the therapist’s competences, as well as a therapy technique. Notwithstanding the multiple qualities of humour, we need to recognise the risks involved in utilising it in the therapeutic process. In fact, the lack of ambiguity in the humorous message is likely to lead to misunderstandings between the patient and therapist. The patient may not have a clear comprehension of the humorous message and may not perceive the message to be humorous. They may also consider the humorous message inappropriate. Furthermore, humour is not a homogeneous phenomenon. There are styles of humour that are adaptive in nature, such as: affiliative humour and self-enhancing humour, and styles of humour that are non-adaptive, such as aggressive humour and self-defeating humour. The variability of humour styles in therapists and patients also needs to be addressed, as not all styles are suitable for therapy – they can disrupt relationships or impair patients’ self-esteem.

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Section: Styles Of Humour Vs Therapymentioning

confidence: 90%

Positive and negative aspects of employing humour in psychotherapy

Kucharski

2023

Arch Psych Psych

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“…A study of 84 psychology students in Argentina observed that adaptive cognitive strategies for emotion regulation were positively related to subjective well-being, whereas maladaptive strategies had a significant negative relationship with this construct [57]. Likewise, a study of 350 university students in Pakistan revealed that emotion regulation, using both adaptive and maladaptive strategies, had a significant direct effect on subjective well-being in young adults [58]. Given that the primary goal of psychotherapeutic approaches is the cultivation of emotion regulation skills, it is anticipated that individuals with lower emotion regulation abilities will exhibit higher levels of psychological distress [55].…”

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Association of Emotional Self-Regulation with Psychological Distress and Positive Functioning Dimensions in Brazilian University Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Diaz

Schaab

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IJERPH

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Emotional self-regulation is a relevant factor for human development capable of minimizing emotional difficulties in the face of adverse events, as was particularly useful during the COVID-19 pandemic. The present study aimed to evaluate emotional self-regulation in Brazilian health science university students and its relationship with positive psychology constructs (subjective well-being, hope, optimism, spirituality, self-compassion, and self-efficacy) and psychological distress (depression, anxiety, and stress). This was a prospective, cross-sectional, observational, analytic study of 1062 Brazilian undergraduate students with data collected using self-administered online questionnaires. Students in the first years of their undergraduate degree programs had significantly higher dysregulation scores than those in the final years. Multiple linear regression yielded a model that explained 71.8% of the variation in emotion dysregulation. The correlations of emotion dysregulation were significant and strong, scoring negatively with self-compassion, optimism, and subjective well-being and positively with psychological distress.

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“…This suggests a common meta-condition like social competencies (Dietzen & Tschöpe, 2019). Indeed, several psychological studies find robust correlations between social competencies and humor styles (e.g., Amjad & Dasti, 2020;Yip & Martin, 2006). However, study designs rarely allow causal inference and humor is never operationalized as humor success (i.e., humor that leads to positive reactions and outcomes independent of humor style).…”

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Humor as a Multifaceted Resource in Healthcare: An Initial Qualitative Analysis of Perceived Functions and Conditions of Medical Assistants’ Use of Humor in their Everyday Work and Education

Raecke

Proyer

2022

Int J Appl Posit Psychol

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It has been argued that humor serves as a crucial resource for healthcare professionals (HCPs). For example, they can use it to cope with work stress, to build relationships with patients, and/or to educate medical students and residents—to name but a few functions. However, empirical studies on the importance of humor among HCPs are still scarce. Existing studies primarily focus on nurses and physicians and rarely distinguish between different humor styles (e.g., light and dark). Based on qualitative interviews with 14 German Medical Assistants (MAs), we investigate the potential of humor as a resource for MAs’ work and education. We focus on the perceived functions and conditions of MAs’ successful use of humor as well as the role of humor styles (i.e., comic styles). Results indicate various functions of humor in MAs’ everyday work (e.g., soothing patients, coping with mistakes, fostering team cohesion, or promoting apprentices’ education) as well as different conditions for a successful use of humor (e.g., positive social basis, current well-being, and social sensitivity). Further, the results suggest that the use of a certain humor style depends on the interlocutor as well as the intended goal of the humor. The results not only stress the multifaceted potential as well as the relevance of conditions of successful humor for MAs’ everyday work and education, but also provide valuable real-life insights into MAs’ everyday humor, thus offering several implications for practice to promote humor as a positive resource in MAs.

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Humor styles, emotion regulation and subjective well-being in young adults

Cited by 21 publications

References 41 publications

Positive and negative aspects of employing humour in psychotherapy

Positive and negative aspects of employing humour in psychotherapy

Association of Emotional Self-Regulation with Psychological Distress and Positive Functioning Dimensions in Brazilian University Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Humor as a Multifaceted Resource in Healthcare: An Initial Qualitative Analysis of Perceived Functions and Conditions of Medical Assistants’ Use of Humor in their Everyday Work and Education

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