Objective: This descriptive and relational study was conducted to examine the relationship between palliative care patients' humor styles death anxiety.
 Materials methods: The sample consisted of 282 patients treated in clinics a training research hospital January 2021 August 2021. Personal Information Form, Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ), Thorson-Powell Death Anxiety Scale (TPDAS) Pall...

Results: The study revealed that sisters have relationships with siblings that are based on warmth, and achieve higher average results in empathic care and personal distress and lower average results in self-defeating humor style than brothers. Relational variables with predictive value for empathy and humor styles were identified in both groups. In brothers, they explained a higher percentage ...

This study aimed to test how sense of humor is dependent on the complex and dynamic interactions between emotional (temperament) sociocognitive (character) components personality. Specifically, we examined relationship temperament and/or character profiles overall potential comic style. In total, 665 adults responded Cloninger’s Temperament Character Inventory (TCI) Comic Style Markers. were as...

The Use of Educational Humor in the Process of Learning and Teaching: A Special Facilitator for Second Language Learners A. Zeyaa'ee Mehr, Ph.D. Research on educational humor during the past two decades demonstrates both the role and the impact of humor on the processes of learning and teaching, especially in the area of second/foreign language learning. There are a number of theories...

Multiple aspects of humor were evaluated in children between the ages of 10 and 14 and related to several areas of competence manifested at school. Humor measures assessed appreciation (including mirth, subjective ratings, and response sets), comprehension, and production, while competence measures included teacher ratings of classroom behavior, peer reputation, and achievement. Humor was relat...

Irony is perceived through a complex interaction between an utterance and its context and serves many social functions such as to be sarcastic and to be humorous. The purpose of this paper is to explore what role linguistic style and contextual information play in the recognition of irony (i.e., assessing the degree of irony) and in the appreciation of ironic functions (i.e., assessing the degr...

The present study examined the phenotypic, genetic, and environmental correlations between a general factor of personality (GFP) and four humor styles: affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating. Participants were 571 same-sex adult twin pairs. Individuals completed the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ) and a short form of the NEO personality scale (from which the GFP was extrac...

North American (Canadian) and Middle East (Lebanese) participants rated their reactions to four different humorous comments (self-enhancing, affiliative, self-defeating, and aggressive), presented by others in brief scenarios. Consistent with predictions generated from a humor styles model originally formulated in a North American context, all participants responded most negatively to aggressiv...

This study assessed the concurrent and prospective associations between psychosocial adjustment and four humor styles, two of which are adaptive (affiliative, self-enhancing) and two maladaptive (aggressive, self-defeating). Participants were 1,234 adolescents (52% female) aged 11-13 years, drawn from six secondary schools in England. Self-reports of psychosocial adjustment (loneliness, depress...

We (Heintz and Ruch 2015, An examination of the convergence between the conceptualization and the measurement of humor styles: A study of the construct validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 28. 611–633) pointed to a lack of convergence between the conceptualization of humor styles and how they are measured with the HSQ (i. e. the Humor Styles...