Integrating Humor and Positive Psychology Approaches to Psychological Well-Being

Abstract: In this study we investigated how individual differences and personality constructs taken from the positive psychology and humor domains of psychology may play an important role in psychological well-being. Participants completed measures assessing trait gratitude, savoring, and humor styles; along with several positive and negative indicators of psychological well-being (e.g., life satisfaction, positive affect, depression, and anxiety). We first examined the degree of empirical and conceptual overlap among the personality constructs from these two domains. Here, we found that higher levels of gratitude and savoring were associated with higher levels of self-enhancing and affiliative humor, whereas higher levels of aggressive and self-defeating humor were primarily associated with lower levels of gratitude. Subsequent regression analyses indicated that the positive psychology construct of gratitude was predictive of several different indices of positive and negative well-being, wh.... https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/753

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Integrating Humor and Positive Psychology Approaches to Psychological Well-Being ; volume:10 ; number:3 ; day:13 ; month:08 ; year:2014 ; Europe's journal of psychology ; 10, Heft 3 (13.08.2014)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Nadia Brittany Maiolino ; Nicholas A. Kuiper

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v10i3.753
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101417424693734142
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 14.08.2025, 10:50 AM CEST