Humor Styles Are Related to Loneliness Across 15 Countries
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Materia
Humor styles Gender Human Adult Loneliness
Fecha
2022-11-30Referencia bibliográfica
Schermer, Rogoza, Branković et al. Humor Styles Are Related to Loneliness Across 15 Countries. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2022, Vol. 18(4), 422–436. [https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.5407]
Resumen
The relationships between self-report loneliness and the four humor styles of affiliative, aggressive, self-defeating, and self-enhancing
were investigated in 15 countries (N = 4,701). Because loneliness has been suggested to be both commonly experienced and
detrimental, we examine if there are similar patterns between humor styles, gender, and age with loneliness in samples of individuals
from diverse backgrounds. Across the country samples, affiliative and self-enhancing humor styles negatively correlated with
loneliness, self-defeating was positively correlated, and the aggressive humor style was not significantly related. In predicting
loneliness, 40.5% of the variance could be accounted. Younger females with lower affiliative, lower self-enhancing, and higher self-
defeating humor style scores had higher loneliness scores. The results suggest that although national mean differences may be
present, the pattern of relationships between humor styles and loneliness is consistent across these diverse samples, providing some
suggestions for mental health promotion among lonely individuals.