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Humor Coping Styles

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Humor is a potent tool which helps in dealing with stressful life circumstances and relates to a crucial aspect of one’s daily life. It has been studied in association with various psychological and physiological variables by many researchers. Variables, namely, perceived stress, coping strategies, well-being, personality, optimism, happiness and perceived health status were studied in relation to humor and humor coping styles to examine how these variables are related to humor and humor coping styles. I. Humor and Humor coping styles Many theorists believed that humor serves a purpose that is vitally important for survival. Humor is believed to have evolved in human beings as an adaptive coping mechanism (Cohen, 1977; Wiesfeld, 1993). Therefore …show more content…

The Health Symptoms Coping Scale was constructed specifically for the study to assess an individual’s way of coping with common physical ailments. In this scale, the participants reported how much coping strategies such as changing perspective, planning, denial, self-blame and humor were used by them when dealing with physical health symptoms. The researchers expected that if sense of humor played a role in physical health, then the adaptive and maladaptive humor styles would be differentially related with the coping strategies. On the basis of previous research, it was expected that, specifically, greater self-enhancing humor would be associated with greater ability to change perspective, greater use of humor to deal with physical symptoms and complaints, and more effective planning. Regression analysis revealed that humor styles played a significant role in predicting coping strategies. Consistent with the expectations, results of the study revealed that self-enhancing humor was one of the humor styles to be most prominently correlated with coping with …show more content…

The study aimed to examine the relationship between humor production and coping effectiveness. The Humor Orientation Scale (Booth-Butterfield and Booth-Butterfield, 1991) was used to measure an individual’s tendency to use humor in social interactions. Coping with humor was assessed using the Coping Humor Scale (Martin and Lefcourt, 1983). Coping Effectiveness Scale (Wanzer, Booth-Butterfield and Booth-Butterfield, 2005) was used to assess an individual’s tendency to perceive one’s ability to cope with stressful events. According the researchers, humor orientation has been referred to as the extent to which an individual uses humor and is effective in using it. Based on the findings of previous studies, it was expected that individuals with higher humor orientation would be more likely to treat stressful situations with humor because this response comes naturally to them. Likewise, it was expected that high humor oriented individuals are more communicatively competent and more affectively oriented; they would perceive themselves more effective in coping with stressful situation. Therefore, it was hypothesized that humor orientation would be positively correlated with the use of humor as a coping strategy. It was also hypothesized that humor orientation and coping efficacy would be positively correlated. Data for the study was collected from a sample of two

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