Humor is not always the best medicine: Specific components of sense of humor and psychological well-being.

By N. Kuiper, Melissa Grimshaw, C. Leite, Gillian A. Kirsh. 2004

314 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health Information Management, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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In Health Information Management

1. C. Collette
2. A. Cann
3. Rod A. Martin
4. S. Kazarian

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. S. Kazarian
2. Daniela Müller
3. Anja K. Leist
4. A. Cann
5. Kelly Stilwell
6. Kanako Taku
7. Rod A. Martin

In Social Psychology

1. Daniela Müller
2. Anja K. Leist
3. D. Dozois
4. S. Kazarian
5. A. Cann
6. Kelly Stilwell
7. Kanako Taku
8. Rod A. Martin

Citations in the corpus

• Humor Types Show Different Patterns of Self-Regulation, Self-Esteem, and Well-Being (2013, background): “However, much research has been conducted concerning the associations between components of humor and psychological well-being (e.g., Kuiper et al. 2004; Lefcourt and Thomas 1998; Marziali et al. 2008; Olson et al. 2005; Thorson and Powell 1993; Yip and Martin 2006).”
• A comparison of humor styles, coping humor, and mental health between Chinese and Canadian university students (2007, background): “The CHS is conceptually very similar to the Self-enhancing humor scale in the HSQ and, indeed, Martin et al. (2003) and Kuiper et al. (2004) reported a high correlation between these two measures (r ¼ :55 and r ¼ :60 respectively, both p < :01).”
• Humor Styles, Positive Personality and Health (2010, background): “The humor styles have been shown to be related to measures of typical positive and negative affect (Kuiper et al., 2004), and to more enduring qualities like optimism, cheerfulness and bad mood (Martin et al., 2003), and sociotropy (Frewen, Brinker, Martin, & Dozois, 2008).”
• Supervisor Humor and Employee Outcomes: The Role of Social Distance and Affective Trust in Supervisor (2015, unknown): “Different from self-enhancing and affiliative humors, aggressive humor is maladaptive and detrimental to others (Kuiper et al. 2004; Martin et al. 2003).”
• Sense of Humor, Stable Affect, and Psychological Well-Being (2014, background): “Multiple studies have found that higher levels of adaptive humor styles are associated with lower depression and higher self-esteem, while higher levels of the maladaptive humor styles tended to be predictive of greater depression and lower self-esteem (Kuiper et al., 2004; Martin et al., 2003).”
• Humor styles and personality-vulnerability to depression (2008, background): “Such findings provide strong challenge to a simplistic view of sense of humor as a uniformly beneficial construct, a view that seems to be increasingly discredited by emerging research evidence (e.g., Kuiper et al. 2004: 135; Kuiper and Martin 1998: 159).”
• Humor styles, culture-related personality, well-being, and family adjustment among Armenians in Lebanon (2006, methodology): “…patterns of correlations with other self-report measures of humor, peer ratings of humor styles, and measures of moods, well-being, self-esteem, optimism, hostility, intimacy, agency and communion, and personality traits from the Five Factor Model (Martin et al. 2003; Kuiper et al. 2004).”