POSITIVE HUMOUR STYLES GIVE POSITIVE MEANING IN LIFE: A CORRELATIONAL STUDY
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Humour, psychological perspective, meaning in life, mind body interventionAbstract
Previously use of humour found related with self-esteem, psychological perspective and mental health of the individuals. Hence the present study was conducted to assess the relationship between humour styles and the idea of meaning in life of the individuals. One hundred participants with ages between 18-45 years participated in the study. All the participants were assessed for (i) four types of humour style (affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-depreciating) (ii) meaning in life which are (intimacy, achievement, relationship, religion, self-transcendence, self-acceptance and fair treatment). In results, affiliative humour style reported positively correlation with relationship (p˂0.05). Similarly self-enhancing humour style was positively correlated with achievement, religion, self-acceptance (p˂0.05 respectively), relationship (p˂0.001), self-transcendence (p<0.01) and fair treatment (p<0.01). In contrast, aggressive humour style had a negative correlation with all factors of meaning in life (p values varied from 0.05 to 0.001). Similarly, self-depreciating humour style had a negative correlation with fair treatment (p<0.05). In summary, higher use of positive humour styles showed a high score of meaning in life. Whereas negative humour styles such as aggressive humour style showed less meaning in life.
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