Liao Chin-Wen, Ting Chih-Yu, Cheng Yao-Chung, Chen Kai-Jie, Liu An-Sheng, Hsueh Tzu-Ju
Department of Industrial Education and Technology, National Changhua University of Education, No.2, Shi-Da Road, Changhua City 50074, Taiwan (R.O.C).
Center for Teacher Education, National Changhua University of Education, No.1, Jin-De Road, Changhua City 50007, Taiwan (R.O.C); Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Changhua University of Education, No.2, Shi-Da Road, Changhua City 50074, Taiwan (R.O.C).
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2025 May;255:104879. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104879. Epub 2025 Mar 25.
Amidst growing scholarly interest in the integrative effects of psychological traits on well-being, the roles of coping humor, self-esteem, and resilience as pathways to subjective happiness remain underexplored. This study examined a sequential mediation model among these variables in Taiwanese university students. The sample comprised 524 undergraduates (228 males, 296 females; M = 21.06) from 64 universities across Taiwan. Data were collected via an online survey in September 2023 using validated scales, including the Coping Humor Scale, Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale, the Brief Resilience Scale, and the Subjective Happiness Scale. Analyses were conducted using IBM SPSS 27.0 and SmartPLS 4.0, applying descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, t-tests, ANOVA, and Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). Results confirmed that self-esteem and resilience significantly mediate the relationship between coping humor and subjective happiness, validating the proposed model. Additionally, adaptive humor styles, such as affiliative and self-enhancing humor, significantly predict self-esteem and well-being, mediating the link between self-esteem and happiness. Psychological well-being, subjective happiness, and positive humor styles were positively correlated, reinforcing humor's role in fostering happiness. These findings highlight the potential of enhancing coping humor, resilience, and self-esteem to promote well-being in educational settings. The study also provides theoretical and practical implications, as well as research limitations and future directions.
在学术界对心理特质对幸福感的综合影响的兴趣日益浓厚之际，应对幽默、自尊和心理韧性作为主观幸福感途径的作用仍未得到充分探索。本研究考察了台湾大学生中这些变量之间的顺序中介模型。样本包括来自台湾64所大学的524名本科生（228名男性，296名女性；平均年龄 = 21.06岁）。2023年9月通过在线调查收集数据，使用经过验证的量表，包括应对幽默量表、罗森伯格自尊量表、简易心理韧性量表和主观幸福感量表。使用IBM SPSS 27.0和SmartPLS 4.0进行分析，应用描述性统计、皮尔逊相关性、t检验、方差分析和偏最小二乘结构方程模型（PLS-SEM）。结果证实，自尊和心理韧性显著中介了应对幽默与主观幸福感之间的关系，验证了所提出的模型。此外，适应性幽默风格，如亲和性幽默和自我提升幽默，显著预测自尊和幸福感，中介了自尊与幸福之间的联系。心理健康、主观幸福感和积极幽默风格呈正相关，强化了幽默在促进幸福方面的作用。这些发现凸显了在教育环境中增强应对幽默、心理韧性和自尊以促进幸福感的潜力。该研究还提供了理论和实践意义，以及研究局限性和未来方向。
