TY - JOUR
T1 - Humor Styles Are Related to Loneliness Across 15 Countries
AU - Schermer, Julie Aitken
AU - Rogoza, Radosław
AU - Branković, Marija
AU - Oviedo-Trespalacios, Oscar
AU - Volkodav, Tatiana
AU - Ha, Truong Thi Khanh
AU - Kwiatkowska, Maria Magdalena
AU - Papazova, Eva
AU - Park, Joonha
AU - Kowalski, Christopher Marcin
AU - Doroszuk, Marta
AU - Iliško, Dzintra
AU - Malik, Sadia
AU - Lins, Samuel
AU - Navarro-Carrillo, Ginés
AU - Torres-Marín, Jorge
AU - Wlodarczyk, Anna
AU - Aquino, Sibele D.
AU - Krammer, Georg
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The relationships between self-report loneliness and the four humor styles of affiliative, aggressive, self-defeating, and self-enhancing were investigated in 15 countries (N = 4,701). Because loneliness has been suggested to be both commonly experienced and detrimental, we examine if there are similar patterns between humor styles, gender, and age with loneliness in samples of individuals from diverse backgrounds. Across the country samples, affiliative and self-enhancing humor styles negatively correlated with loneliness, self-defeating was positively correlated, and the aggressive humor style was not significantly related. In predicting loneliness, 40.5% of the variance could be accounted. Younger females with lower affiliative, lower self-enhancing, and higher self-defeating humor style scores had higher loneliness scores. The results suggest that although national mean differences may be present, the pattern of relationships between humor styles and loneliness is consistent across these diverse samples, providing some suggestions for mental health promotion among lonely individuals.
AB - The relationships between self-report loneliness and the four humor styles of affiliative, aggressive, self-defeating, and self-enhancing were investigated in 15 countries (N = 4,701). Because loneliness has been suggested to be both commonly experienced and detrimental, we examine if there are similar patterns between humor styles, gender, and age with loneliness in samples of individuals from diverse backgrounds. Across the country samples, affiliative and self-enhancing humor styles negatively correlated with loneliness, self-defeating was positively correlated, and the aggressive humor style was not significantly related. In predicting loneliness, 40.5% of the variance could be accounted. Younger females with lower affiliative, lower self-enhancing, and higher self-defeating humor style scores had higher loneliness scores. The results suggest that although national mean differences may be present, the pattern of relationships between humor styles and loneliness is consistent across these diverse samples, providing some suggestions for mental health promotion among lonely individuals.
KW - adult
KW - gender
KW - human
KW - humor styles
KW - loneliness
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85143070931&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5964/ejop.5407
DO - 10.5964/ejop.5407
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85143070931
SN - 1841-0413
VL - 18
SP - 422
EP - 436
JO - Europe's Journal of Psychology
JF - Europe's Journal of Psychology
IS - 4
ER -