This study explored relationships between sense of humor, stress, and
coping strategies. Undergraduate students (N=258) from introductory
psychology courses completed a perceived stress scale, an everyday problems
scale, a state anxiety inventory, a sense of humor scale, and a scale assessing
their preferred coping strategies. High and low sense of humor groups were
determined by selecting participants with self-reported sense of humor at
one standard deviation above and below the overall mean on the sense of
humor scale. The high sense of humor group appraised less stress and
reported less current anxiety than a low sense of humor group despite
experiencing a similar number of everyday problems in the previous two
months. The high humor group was more likely to use positive reappraisal
and problem-solving coping strategies than the low humor group. A weaker
relationship existed between appraisal of stress and number of problems
in the low humor group because this group perceived greater stress at low
and average number of everyday problems than the high humor group.
The results were discussed as supporting the role of humor in restructuring
a situation so it is less stressful, and the relationship of humor to both
emotion-focused and problem-focused coping strategies.
This study explored relationships between sense of humor, stress, andcoping strategies. Undergraduate students (N=258) from introductorypsychology courses completed a perceived stress scale, an everyday problemsscale, a state anxiety inventory, a sense of humor scale, and a scale assessingtheir preferred coping strategies. High and low sense of humor groups weredetermined by selecting participants with self-reported sense of humor atone standard deviation above and below the overall mean on the sense ofhumor scale. The high sense of humor group appraised less stress andreported less current anxiety than a low sense of humor group despiteexperiencing a similar number of everyday problems in the previous twomonths. The high humor group was more likely to use positive reappraisaland problem-solving coping strategies than the low humor group. A weakerrelationship existed between appraisal of stress and number of problemsin the low humor group because this group perceived greater stress at lowand average number of everyday problems than the high humor group.The results were discussed as supporting the role of humor in restructuringa situation so it is less stressful, and the relationship of humor to bothemotion-focused and problem-focused coping strategies.
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