Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
PLoS One. 2023 Dec 18;18(12):e0295995. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295995. eCollection 2023.
Research has found that humour styles can moderate the relationship between various facets of mental health and well-being. Most of these studies have used college student samples, however, and the generalizability of these findings has not been firmly established. This study examined how humour styles moderate the relationship between hopelessness and suicide ideation in both student and community samples. Community participants from the U.S. and Canada (n = 554) and student participants from a Canadian university (n = 208) completed several self-report measures including the Humor Styles Questionnaire. Analyses revealed differences in humour styles between the samples, as well as differences in humour styles between men and women. Regression analyses showed that self-defeating humour moderated the relationship between hopelessness and suicide ideation for student participants but not for community participants. Conversely, self-enhancing humour moderated the relationship between hopelessness and suicide ideation for community participants but not for student participants. These results suggest that high levels of self-defeating humour and self-enhancing humour may be uniquely maladaptive for these respective samples. These and other findings point to the necessity of recruiting diverse samples to better understand the beneficial and detrimental associations between humour styles and mental health. The potential to use measures of humour style as a tool to help identify at-risk individuals and to inform the development of intervention programs is discussed.
研究发现，幽默风格可以调节心理健康和幸福感的各个方面之间的关系。然而，这些研究大多使用了大学生样本，这些发现的普遍性尚未得到确凿证实。本研究考察了幽默风格如何调节绝望感和自杀意念之间的关系，同时研究了学生和社区两个样本。来自美国和加拿大的社区参与者（n=554）和加拿大一所大学的学生参与者（n=208）完成了几项自我报告的测量，包括幽默风格问卷。分析显示，样本之间的幽默风格存在差异，男性和女性之间的幽默风格也存在差异。回归分析显示，对于学生参与者，自我挫败的幽默会调节绝望感和自杀意念之间的关系，但对于社区参与者则没有这种关系。相反，对于社区参与者，自我增强的幽默会调节绝望感和自杀意念之间的关系，但对于学生参与者则没有这种关系。这些结果表明，高度的自我挫败的幽默和自我增强的幽默可能对这两个样本都是独特的适应不良。这些和其他发现表明，有必要招募多样化的样本，以更好地理解幽默风格和心理健康之间的有益和有害关联。还讨论了使用幽默风格测量作为一种工具来帮助识别高风险个体并为干预计划的制定提供信息的潜力。
