Is the use of humor associated with anger management? The assessment of individual differences in humor styles in Spain

Torres‐Marín, Jorge; Navarro‐Carrillo, Ginés; Carretero‐Dios, Hugo

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.08.040

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“…affiliative and self‐enhancing humour) showed moderate‐to‐strong positive associations with several positive PWB indicators such as happiness, sociability, hope and life satisfaction. These results are in keeping with past studies showing that an inclination to use benign humour styles is robustly associated with increased well‐being outside the healthcare setting . However, to the best of our knowledge, these data constitute the first empirical evidence of the independence of these relations from empathy‐related traits.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…Although self‐defeating humour has been conceptualised as a relatively detrimental humour style , our results support the notion that laughing at oneself might benefit certain areas of PWB. This result is aligned with recent studies conducted with Spanish individuals from the general population . As in the case of aggressive humour, it would be interesting to explore whether the effects of self‐defeating humour are work context‐dependent.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Furthermore, against our expectations, adaptive humour styles did not significantly predict lower levels of stress in nursing professionals when their scores on the two empathy‐related traits were controlled for. Although positive humour styles have been associated negatively with anxiety and depression in the general population , other studies found no significant associations between these types of humour and negative dimensions of well‐being . Importantly, these findings concerning affiliative and self‐enhancing humour styles are similar to those obtained for perspective‐taking.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 48%

“…The Humor Styles Questionnaire was used in this study. This instrument comprises 32 items that measure four humour styles (eight items for each humour style): affiliative (e.g.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, although aggressive humour has been positively associated with personality traits related to emotional instability , no significant correlations have been found between aggressive humour and PWB in adult samples . Data on self‐defeating humour are more inconsistent: whereas some studies have highlighted the negative effect of this type of humour on individuals’ well‐being , a recent study has revealed that self‐defeating humour may actually have a beneficial effect on some dimensions, such as happiness . The application of this model to the nursing context would allow exploration of whether such findings are replicable among nursing professionals, or whether potential work context‐based differences in the impact of positive and negative humour styles on PWB emerge.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The effect of humour on nursing professionals’ psychological well‐being goes beyond the influence of empathy: a cross‐sectional study

Navarro‐Carrillo

Torres‐Marín

Corbacho‐Lobato

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Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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Scand J Caring Sci; 2020; 34: 474-483 The effect of humour on nursing professionals' psychological well-being goes beyond the influence of empathy: a cross-sectional study Background: Prior research has underlined the meaningful function of humour in nursing settings. Nonetheless, most of the empirical evidence on humour and nursing derives from approaches that mainly considered the potential beneficial effects of humour, neglecting potential detrimental effects of the dark side of humour. Moreover, little is known about whether the specific repercussions of humour on healthcare professionals' well-being would go beyond empathy-a construct robustly related to psychological well-being. Aims: To examine whether distinctive humour styles (affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive and self-defeating) are differentially associated with the psychological well-being of nursing professionals. Importantly, we also analysed whether these potential humour effects go over and above the influence of empathy-related traits (perspective-taking and personal distress). Method: A cross-sectional, descriptive correlational design was used. A convenience sample of 104 nursing professionals with a minimum work experience of one year was recruited. Results: Our results revealed that a greater inclination to affiliative and self-enhancing humour styles was strongly related to higher scores on happiness, sociability, hope and life satisfaction among nursing professionals. Concerning maladaptive humour styles, aggressive humour was related to low life satisfaction and high nursing stress. By contrast, self-defeating humour-a theoretically detrimental humour style-was related to higher scores on health among these professionals. These effects emerged even after controlling for the influence of demographics (i.e., gender, age and years of experience), perspective-taking and personal distress. Conclusions: Our results suggest that adaptive humour styles may promote positive indicators of well-being, but they might not protect against negative indicators. Moreover, differential effects of maladaptive humour styles emerged. Whereas aggressive humoristic expressions can be interpreted as a sign of a poor psychological functioning, self-defeating humour may boost positive psychological outcomes among nursing professionals. These data can help to design more efficient humour-based intervention programmes aimed at minimising potential negative consequences of nursing activity.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 48%

“…The Humor Styles Questionnaire was used in this study. This instrument comprises 32 items that measure four humour styles (eight items for each humour style): affiliative (e.g.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The effect of humour on nursing professionals’ psychological well‐being goes beyond the influence of empathy: a cross‐sectional study

Navarro‐Carrillo

Torres‐Marín

Corbacho‐Lobato

et al. 2019

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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Validation of the humour styles questionnaire in healthcare professionals

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Aim The aim of this study is to determine the reliability and validity of the Humour Styles Questionnaire (HSQ) in a sample of Spanish healthcare professionals. Design A cross‐sectional study. Methods The version of HSQ translated into Spanish by Cayssials and Pérez was used to validate on a sample of healthcare professionals (N = 250). The reliability analysed the Crombach's α coefficient and Pearson's correlation coefficient between the factors and the total scale score. The Exploratory Factor Analysis was carried out with Kaiser's criteria for the extraction of factors with Varimax rotation. Results HSQ in this study sample reproduced the similar structure of the original version with four factors (affiliative, self‐enhancing, aggressive and self‐defeating humour). These factors explained 44.46% of the total variance and Cronbach's ranged from 0.64–0.79. Global HSQ scale reliability was 0.82. Conclusion The HSQ is a valid and reliable instrument for assessing humour in healthcare professionals.

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