Humorous coping scales and their fit to a stress and coping framework

Doosje, Sibe; Landsheer, Johannes A.; Goede, M.P.M. de; Doornen, Lorenz J.P. van

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“…As a general outcome, humor was positively associated with the wellbeing of health workers; therefore, it could reduce perceived stress related to COVID-19, thanks to the positive influence of a humorous mood on cognitive assessment and re-evaluation of the stressful situation ( Martin et al, 1993 ; Abel, 2002 ; Doosje et al, 2012 ). This outcome adds to previous literature showing the protective power of humor against life-threatening and stressful situations (e.g., Vaillant, 2000 ; Peterson and Seligman, 2004 ; Geisler and Weber, 2010 ; Müller and Ruch, 2011 ; Kuiper, 2012 ), including daily stressful situations within an HCW’s work life ( Plester, 2009 ; Rowe and Regehr, 2010 ).…”

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“…The same cognitive process of shifting away from the initial representation of a problematic situation and overcoming its fixed representation applies to coping with it humorously ( Martin, 1989 ). Approaching a perceived stressful situation with humor positively impacts emotion regulation, cognitive appraisal, and reappraisal of the problematic situation (e.g., Martin and Lefcourt, 1983 ; Martin et al, 1993 ; Abel, 2002 ; Geisler and Weber, 2010 ; Doosje et al, 2012 ; Kuiper, 2012 ). Humor as a protective factor for wellbeing has been verified in several contexts, ranging from clinical settings (e.g., Ventis et al, 2001 ; Svebak et al, 2006 ; Dionigi and Canestrari, 2016 , 2018a , b ) to daily hassles (e.g., Martin and Lefcourt, 1983 ; Martin et al, 1993 ; Abel, 2002 ; Kuiper, 2012 for an overview).…”

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Coronavirus Disease Stress Among Italian Healthcare Workers: The Role of Coping Humor

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The study aimed to understand how coping strategies in general and humor-based coping strategies in particular modulate the perception of pandemic-related stress in a sample of Italian healthcare workers during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Italy. A total of 625 healthcare workers anonymously and voluntarily completed a 10-min questionnaire, which included psychometrically valid measurements preceded by a set of questions aimed at determining workers’ exposure to COVID-19. The Perceived Stress Scale was used to measure healthcare workers’ stress levels, and the Brief COPE Scale and Coping Humor Scale were used to assess participants’ avoidant or approach coping style and verify the degree to which they relied on humor to cope with stress. The results show that (1) levels of perceived stress were higher in healthcare workers who were more exposed to COVID-19 (i.e., who came into contact with COVID-19 patients or worked in wards dedicated to COVID-19) in comparison to less-exposed workers; (2) participants who reported a higher use of avoidant coping strategies perceived the situation as more stressful than those who used them less; and (3) healthcare workers who reported higher use of humor-based coping strategies perceived the situation as less stressful in comparison with those who reported less use of coping humor. Such findings expanded other research studies by including coping humor as a potential factor to mitigate the perceived stress related to COVID-19. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications for future research and limitations of the study.

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Coronavirus Disease Stress Among Italian Healthcare Workers: The Role of Coping Humor

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“…Środowisko pracy obfitujące w różne formy humoru zwiększało innowacyjność i kreatywność kadry pracowniczej. Poprzez redukcję stresu humor przyczyniał się do zmniejszenia wypalenia zawodowego i zwiększenia satysfakcji z pracy [8]. Należy podkreślić, że wyniki badań wskazują, że radzenie sobie przez humor pełniło funkcję bufora chroniącego przed szkodliwym działaniem stresu [9].…”

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“…Doosje i wsp. [8] odkryli, że stosowanie strategii humorystycznej w obliczu stresu jest bezpośrednio związane z pozytywnym afektem dotyczącym pracy i psychicznym dobrostanem jednostki, jak również z niższym poziomem wypalenia zawodowego pracowników.…”

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Coping humor for the relationship between a sense of stress at work and job satisfaction

Kruczek

Basińska

2018

Med Pr

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Wstęp: Humor jako zasób podmiotowy jednostki pozwala jej redukować napięcia i spostrzegać sytuacje jako mniej zagrażające. Poprzez takie działania wpływa na efektywne radzenie sobie m.in. ze stresem zawodowym oraz zwiększa satysfakcję z wykonywanej pracy. Materiał i metody: Do badań zakwalifikowano 201 osób pracujących zawodowo (113 kobiet i 88 mężczyzn) w wieku 19-60 lat-średnia wieku w tej grupie wyniosła 37,76 roku (SD = 12,04). Badania były prowadzone przez miesiąc (przełom lutego i marca 2017 r.). Zastosowano w nich: Skalę radzenia sobie przez humor (Coping Humor Scale-CHS), Skalę satysfakcji z pracy (SSP), Skalę odczuwanego stresu w pracy (PSS-10-P) oraz ankietę własną. Wyniki: Radzenie sobie ze stresem przez humor częściowo mediuje związek między poczuciem stresu w pracy a satysfakcją zawodową. Zmniejszając napięcie nerwowe wywołane różnymi sytuacjami związanymi z wykonywanymi obowiązkami pracowniczymi, pozytywnie wpływa na poczucie satysfakcji z pracy. Wnioski: Radzenie sobie przez humor zwiększa zdolności adaptacyjne jednostki w obliczu stresu w pracy m.in. poprzez przesunięcie perspektywy i zdystansowanie się do problemów zawodowych. Pozwala także na ponowną analizę i w rezultacie ocenę stresora jako mniej zagrażającego.

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“…Along the course of the years, benign humor has been verified to play a significant role in coping with stressful events (e.g., [ 2 , 5 , 6 ]), contributing to resilience (e.g., [ 6 , 7 ]), predicting well-being and satisfaction (e.g., [ 8 , 9 ]), and affecting positively self-efficacy, which, in turn, elicits positive emotions [ 10 ]. In fact, approaching stressful situations, from daily hassles to traumatic experiences, with humor may positively impact emotion regulation, cognitive appraisal, and reappraisal of the demanding situation (e.g., [ 5 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ]).…”

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The Robust Italian Validation of the Coping Humor Scale (RI-CHS) for Adult Health Care Workers

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Fermani

Bongelli

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IJERPH

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The Coping Humor Scale (CHS) is a seven-item tool widely used to assess the use of humor in coping with stressful situations. The beneficial effect of humor in buffering the impact of negative experiences has been investigated in several contexts and populations; for this reason, the CHS has been used in many languages, but its solid validation in Italian is still missing. Our study aimed at building a robust instrument to measure coping humor strategies among Italian health care workers, a category which has been particularly exposed to stressful situations in the last two years. The CHS translated into Italian was administered to a sample of 735 health care workers during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis were performed. As a result, a six-item Robust Italian Coping Humor Scale (RI-CHS) was validated and ready to use for future studies on Italian health care workers’ samples. This study gives evidence that our six-item solution works as a ruler (i.e., an instrument that meets the conditions of fundamental measurement in the context of the human sciences) to measure the degree to which Italian health care workers rely on humor to cope with stress.

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Humorous coping scales and their fit to a stress and coping framework

Abstract: Stress and coping theory, Humorous coping, Facet analysis, Mapping sentence, Health-related assessment,

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Coronavirus Disease Stress Among Italian Healthcare Workers: The Role of Coping Humor

Coronavirus Disease Stress Among Italian Healthcare Workers: The Role of Coping Humor

Coping humor for the relationship between a sense of stress at work and job satisfaction

The Robust Italian Validation of the Coping Humor Scale (RI-CHS) for Adult Health Care Workers

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