Relationships Among Humor, Coping, Relationship Stress, and Satisfaction in Dating Relationships: Replication and Extension

Vela, Lori E.; Booth‐Butterfield, Melanie; Wanzer, Melissa Bekelja; Vallade, Jessalyn I.

doi:10.1080/08824096.2012.746224

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“…Several studies have examined aspects of humor (e.g., sense of humor, humor production, humor styles) as an influence on relationship satisfaction (Bippus 2000;Bippus et al 2011;Cann et al 2008;Cann et al 2011;Hall 2013;Vela et al 2013;Weisfeld et al 2011;Ziv and Gadish 1989). A meta-analysis by Hall (2017) supported a link between humor and satisfaction, tempered by three more specific claims.…”

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Perceived partner humor use and relationship satisfaction in romantic pairs: The mediating role of relational uncertainty

Miczo

Averbeck

2020

Humor

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This study investigated relational uncertainty as a mechanism through which perceived partner humor use affects recipient’s relationship satisfaction. Two hundred individuals completed measures of their partners’ perceived positive and negative humor use, their relational uncertainty and relationship satisfaction. Results reveal that perceived partner’s positive relational humor use predicted greater relationship satisfaction, and perceived partner’s negative relational humor use predicted diminished relationship satisfaction. Further, relational uncertainty mediated relationships between perceived partner positive humor and satisfaction and perceived partner negative humor and satisfaction.

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Section: Humor and Relationship Satisfactionmentioning

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Perceived partner humor use and relationship satisfaction in romantic pairs: The mediating role of relational uncertainty

Miczo

Averbeck

2020

Humor

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“…Humor has long been seen as an adaptive way to cope with adversity, ranging from everyday life hassles to major negative life events (Freud, 1928; Vaillant, 1992). More specifically, recent research suggests an emotion regulatory function of humor (Booth-Butterfield, Wanzer, Weil, & Krezmien, 2014; Goldin, McRae, Ramel, & Gross, 2008; Samson, Glassco, Lee, & Gross, 2014; Vela, Booth-Butterfield, Wanzer, & Vallade, 2013). Emotion regulation has been defined as the heterogeneous set of processes by which emotions are influenced (i.e., dampening, intensifying, maintaining, installing, or ending an emotion; Gross & Thompson, 2007).…”

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Positive humor in couples as interpersonal emotion regulation: A dyadic study in everyday life on the mediating role of psychological intimacy

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Samson

Debrot

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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The aim of this study was to investigate daily positive humor in couples as an interpersonal emotion regulation strategy. Associated changes in psychological intimacy were tested as a possible socio-affective pathway of emotion regulation that mediates the effects of couple humor on changes in individual momentary affect. Within a dyadic ambulatory assessment framework, 102 couples reported on their production of positive humor as an attempt to regulate their partner’s mood, psychological intimacy, and momentary affect four times a day for 1 week. An actor–partner interdependence mediation model revealed actor and partner effects of humor on changes in daily affect. Furthermore, the indirect effect of own humor via changes in the partner’s feelings of psychological intimacy (socio-affective pathway) on the partner’s affect was significant. Results support the assumption that daily positive humor experienced with one’s romantic partner serves as an interpersonal emotion regulation strategy in daily life as reflected in direct effects on one’s own and one’s partner’s momentary affect. The partner’s changes in affect were partially mediated by changes in their feelings of psychological intimacy. This speaks in favor of an indirect socio-affective mechanism of interpersonal emotion regulation associated with positive humor expressed toward the partner.

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“…HO and HA, as measures of humor, tap participants’ willingness to appreciate (jokes, styles, etc.) and enact (communicate) humorous messages (see Vela et al., 2013; Wrench & McCroskey, 2001). Similarly, Ramsey and Meyer’s (2014) scales that measure Meyer’s four functions of humor were designed to measure specific goals for humor enactment.…”

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“…In terms of specific humor variables, communication researchers have exhaustively examined the relatedness of Booth-Butterfield and Booth-Butterfield’s (1991) Humor Orientation (HO) Scale, Richmond’s (1999) Humor Assessment (HA), and a myriad of sense of humor (SH) measures, with communication variables (e.g., Booth-Butterfield & Booth-Butterfield, 1991; Futch & Edwards, 1999; Graham, 1995; Vela, Booth-Butterfield, Wanzer, & Vallade, 2013; Wrench & McCroskey, 2001). Although lines of research employing the above humor variables, variables that measure general predispositions to enact and appreciate humor, benefit our understanding of humor, researchers may add value by studying communicative functions of humor that explain the reasons (sender goals) individuals enact humorous messages.…”

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Communibiology and Humor

Ramsey

2016

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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Participants (N ¼ 323) at a midsized university in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States completed self-report measures: personality factors (psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism) and communicative functions of humor (identification, clarification, enforcement, and differentiation). Analyses of structural models indicated that psychoticism predicted clarification, enforcement, and differentiation humor. Extraversion predicted identification, enforcement, and differentiation humor. Neuroticism was not observed as a significant predictor of the humor functions. The results offer support for the communibiological paradigm, which argues that neurobiological personality factors meaningfully account for the ways in which individuals communicate.

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Relationships Among Humor, Coping, Relationship Stress, and Satisfaction in Dating Relationships: Replication and Extension

Cited by 22 publications

References 29 publications

Perceived partner humor use and relationship satisfaction in romantic pairs: The mediating role of relational uncertainty

Perceived partner humor use and relationship satisfaction in romantic pairs: The mediating role of relational uncertainty

Positive humor in couples as interpersonal emotion regulation: A dyadic study in everyday life on the mediating role of psychological intimacy

Communibiology and Humor

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