“…For example, research has shown that self-deprecating humor is positively related to depression (Lin and Chiang 2015;Wu et al 2014), anxiety , hopelessness ) and social loneliness (Lin and Chiang 2015); other-devaluing humor is positively related to social anxiety and social loneliness ); body-language humor is positively related to energy, sleep quality, positive affect, and peer support and negatively related to fatigue, anxiety, and hopelessness ; and witty-response humor is positively related to happiness (Lin and Chiang 2015), parental support, teacher support, and peer support . In terms of the use of humor, adolescents have begun to involve the topics of sex and aggression (Führ 2001). When the above type of humor appears in adolescents' verbal interaction, it can be viewed as a type of maladaptive humor, which is a type of verbal bullying.…”