Humor, Mankind’s Greatest Blessing: The Relationship between Sense of Humor and Psychological Wellbeing among High School Students in Taiwan
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.52731/lir.v005.470Keywords:
high-school students, humor, depression, well-being, self-esteemAbstract
The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationships between sense of humor and self-esteem, depression, emotional blockage, and poor coping. In addition, the statistical differences between the variables in different groups of participants were examined. Chinese questionnaires with multiple scales were used to collect the data. For all participants, there was a positive correlation between sense of humor and self-esteem and a negative correlation with poor coping. As the result suggests, sense of humor is related to self-esteem and not to depression. People with higher sense of humor scores do not always have lower depression scores. In addition, no correlation was found between sense of humor, self-esteem, depression, emotional blockage, and poor coping in the male students. Finally, the students with higher scores for sense of humor and depression had lower scores for self-esteem.
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