Management and Organizational Studies, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Science, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Radosław RogozaInstitute of Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw, Poland
Marija BrankovićDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia
Oscar Oviedo-TrespalaciosDelft University of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Section of Safety and Security Science, Delft, The Netherlands
Tatiana VolkodavDepartment of Pedagogy and Psychology, Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russian Federation
Truong Thi Khanh HaFaculty of Psychology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
Maria Magdalena KwiatkowskaInstitute of Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw, Poland
Eva PapazovaInstitute for Research in Education, Sofia, Bulgaria
Joonha ParkSchool of Management, NUCB Business School, Nagoya, Japan
Christopher Marcin KowalskiManagement and Organizational Studies, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Science, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Marta DoroszukCentre for Social Cognitive Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Dzintra IliškoInstitute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Center of Sustainable Education, University of Daugavpils, Daugavpils, Latvia
Sadia MalikDepartment of Psychology, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan
Samuel LinsLaboratory of Social Psychology, Center for Psychology, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Ginés Navarro-CarrilloDepartment of Psychology, University of Jaén, Jaén, Spain
Jorge Torres-MarínDepartment of Research Methods in Behavioral Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Anna WlodarczykEscuela de Psicología, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile
Sibele D. AquinoDepartment of Psychology, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Georg KrammerInstitute for Educational Sciences, University College of Teacher Education Styria, Graz, Austria
AbstractThe relationships between self-report loneliness and the four humor styles of affiliative, aggressive, self-defeating, and self-enhancing were investigated in 15 countries (N = 4,701). Because loneliness has been suggested to be both commonly experienced and detrimental, we examine if there are similar patterns between humor styles, gender, and age with loneliness in samples of individuals from diverse backgrounds. Across the country samples, affiliative and self-enhancing humor styles negatively correlated with loneliness, self-defeating was positively correlated, and the aggressive humor style was not significantly related. In predicting loneliness, 40.5% of the variance could be accounted. Younger females with lower affiliative, lower self-enhancing, and higher self-defeating humor style scores had higher loneliness scores. The results suggest that although national mean differences may be present, the pattern of relationships between humor styles and loneliness is consistent across these diverse samples, providing some suggestions for mental health promotion among lonely individuals.
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