Humor Styles and the Intolerance of Uncertainty Model of Generalized Anxiety

Abstract: Past research suggests that sense of humor may play a role in anxiety. The present study builds upon this work by exploring how individual differences in various humor styles, such as affiliative, self-enhancing, and self-defeating humor, may fit within a contemporary research model of anxiety. In this model, intolerance of uncertainty is a fundamental personality characteristic that heightens excessive worry, thus increasing anxiety. We further propose that greater intolerance of uncertainty may also suppress the use of adaptive humor (affiliate and self-enhancing), and foster the increased use of maladaptive self-defeating humor. Initial correlational analyses provide empirical support for these proposals. In addition, we found that excessive worry and affiliative humor both served as significant mediators. In particular, heightened intolerance of uncertainty lead to both excessive worry and a reduction in affiliative humor use, which, in turn, increased anxiety. We also explored.... https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/752

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Humor Styles and the Intolerance of Uncertainty Model of Generalized Anxiety ; volume:10 ; number:3 ; day:13 ; month:08 ; year:2014 ; Europe's journal of psychology ; 10, Heft 3 (13.08.2014)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Nicholas A. Kuiper ; Dana Klein ; Jaclyn Vertes ; Nadia Brittany Maiolino

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v10i3.752
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101417425778720018
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 14.08.2025, 10:59 MESZ