| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 教育心理與諮商學系碩士班 === 93 === In the past, psychologists thought that humor is a positive personality, and found the positive correlation between humor and self-esteem, optimism , and the negative correlation between humor and anxiety, depression. And still other researches found the stress moderating effect of humor.
However, recent researches found it is not necessary more humorous people is more optimistic or have high self-esteem than less ones. In another words, researchers thought that we should take a multidimensional approach to study humor, and maybe there are some adaptive humor style, but still others is maladaptive. So, this research try to use the multidimensional approach to study the relationship between life stress, multiple sense of humor, and subjective well-being of college student
617 college student from northern, median, and southern parts of Taiwan participated in this study. In study 1, the result indicated that the well-being of Taiwan college student is better. The mean score of life satisfaction is 4.07, positive emotion is 4.54, and negative emotion is 3.39.
In study 2: The interaction effect is not significant. It means that when encountering life event, the relationship between life events and life stress had no significant differences between higher level humor subjects and lower level humor ones for all four styles of humor. And the main effect is not significant, either. It means there’s no significant differences on life stress between higher level humor subjects and lower level humor ones for all four styles of humor.
In study 3: Only the interaction effect of self-enhance humor and life stress is significant on life satisfaction and positive emotion. And the interaction effect of aggressive and affiliative humor and life stress is not significant on life satisfaction, positive emotion, and negative emotion. It means the difference between inward humor and outward humor is the inward humor could moderate the negative effect of life stress on life satisfaction and positive emotion, and the outward ones couldn’t.
And the main effect of two adaptive humor style( affiliative and self-enhance humor) on life satisfaction, positive emotion, and negative emotion is significant. The higher level humor subjects is more satisfied with their life and have more positive emotion experience and less negative emotion experience than the lower level humor ones. And the main the main effect of two maladaptive humor style, the result is just inverse. This result indicated that there indeed are some adaptive and maladaptive humor style.
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