Abstract:The study aims to determine if mindfulness and the Five Factor Personality Traits significantly predict humor styles. The participants of the study were a total of 502 undergraduate students, 300 (59.8%) female and 202 (40.2%) male. Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ), Adjective Based Personality Test (ABPT) and The Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) were used in order to collect the data of the stu dy. Pearson's Product Moments correlation technique and multiple regression analysis were employed for statistical analysis. The findings of the study show that mindfulness and the Five Factor Personality Traits significantly predict the subdimensions of humor styles.
The aim of this study is to analyze if there are significant correlations among self-esteem, humor styles and positive-negative affection and if self esteem significantly predicts humor styles and positive-negative affection. A total of 440 under graduate students (77% female) chosen by random set sampling method participated in this study voluntarily. The mean age of the participants was 20.33 with a standard deviation of 1.73. Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Humor Styles Questionnaire and The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule were employed in order to collect the data of the study. To analyze the data the Pearson moments correlation technique and multiple regression analysis were used. According to the findings of the study there were positive significant correlations between self-esteem and affiliative and self-enhancing humor styles, negative correlations between self esteem and aggressive and self defeating humor styles. Another finding of the study shows that there is a significant positive correlation between self-esteem and positive affection and a significant negative correlation between self-esteem and negative affect. Self-esteem significantly predicts the humor styles sub dimensions. Self-esteem explains 3.1% of the total variance in affiliative humor style (R 2 = .031, β = .176, p < .001), 5.7% of the total variance in self enhancing humor style (R 2 = .057, β = .239, p < .001), 1.1% of the total variance in aggressive humor style (R 2 = .011, β =-.107, p < .05), 4.1% of the total variance in self defeating humor style (R 2 = .041, β =-.208, p < .001). As a result of the analysis predicting the positive-negative affection; self-esteem explains 14.7% of the total variance in positive affect (R 2 = .147, β = .384, p < .001) and 4.2% of the total variance in negative affect (R 2 =-.042, β =-.204, p < .001).
The aim of the current study was to investigate the contributions of sad childhood experiences, depression, anxiety, and stress, existence of a sense of meaning, and pursuit of meaning in explaining life satisfaction of young adults in Turkey. The sample comprised 400 undergraduate students ( M age = 20.2 yr.) selected via random cluster sampling. There were no statistically significant differences between men and women in terms of their scores on depression, existence of meaning, pursuit of meaning, and life satisfaction scores. However, there were statistically significant differences between men and women on the sad childhood experiences, anxiety and stress. In heirarchical regression analysis, the model as a whole was significant. Depression and existence of meaning in life made unique significant contributions to the variance in satisfaction in life. Students with lower depression and with a sense of meaning in life tended to be more satisfied with life.
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