Humor Styles as Mediators of the Shyness-Loneliness Relationship

By Sherri D. Fitts, R. A. Sebby, M. Zlokovich. 2009

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• Self-esteem and humor style as mediators of the effects of shyness on loneliness among Chinese college students (2012, background): “Self-defeating humor is using humor to enhance the relationships with others at the expense of the self and is characterized by the excessive use of self-disparaging humor (Fitts et al., 2009).”
• The role of social support and self-esteem in the relationship between shyness and loneliness (2013, background): “…measures of shyness and loneliness typically show a correlation ranging from .40 to .50, shyness and loneliness are reliably correlated (Ashe & McCutcheon, 2001; Fitts et al., 2009; Jones, Rose, & Russell, 1990), the degree to which intervening variables mediate their relationship is not clear.”