Rotton, J. (1992).Trait humor and longevity: Do comics have the last laugh? Health Psychology, 11, 262-266.

Analyses provided little support for the idea that individuals with a well-developed sense of humor live longer than serious writers and other entertainers.

Rotton, J. (1992)

INFLUENCE ON SOCIAL RELATIONS

AUTHORS

Heintz, S. (2017). Putting a spotlight on daily humor behaviors: Dimensionality and relationships with personality, subjective well-being, and humor styles. Personality and Individual Differences, 104, 407-412. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.08.042

Humorous behaviors correlate with emotional stability, extraversion, less pleasantness and culture/openness. Joyful, fun and self-directed humor behaviors were associated with subjective well-being, even when personality and humor styles were controlled

Heintz, S.

Jeludar, S., Jeludar, Z., Ahmadigatab, T., & Shayan, N. (2011). The Study of Relationship Between Sense of Humor and General Health in Students. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 30, 2057-2060. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.10.399

“As a result,a person with sense of humor is sensible and his/her social functions and daily performances are at high level.The more the sense of humor, the lower the negative-above mentioned aspects of mental health will be, but the more the social performances will increase”.

Jeludar, S., Jeludar, Z., Ahmadigatab, T., & Shayan, N.

Martin, R.A. (2007). The Psychology of Humor: An Integrative Approach. Burlington, MA: Elsevier Academic Press.

“humor as a coping mechanism is the idea that humor contributes to

psychological health and resistance to stress by enhancing social support and individuals with

a greater sense of humor are thought to be more socially competent”

Martin, R.A.

Sirigatti, S., Penzo, I., Giannetti, E., Casale, S., & Stefanile, C. (2016). Relationships between humorist profiles and psychological well-being. Personality and Individual Differences, 90, 219-224. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.11.011

From the authors, the Scale of Psychological Well-Being (SPWB) of self-report, consists of 84 questions based on a 7-point Likert scale (from “entirely disagree” to “agree absolutely”) which evaluated six components of the psychological well-being including a goal in life, connections with others, personal extension, self-acceptance, autonomy and environmental mastery.

Sirigatti, S., Penzo, I., Giannetti, E., Casale, S., & Stefanile, C.

Stieger, S., Formann, A., & Burger, C. (2010). Humor styles and their relationship to explicit and implicit self-esteem. Personality and Individual Differences, 50(5), 747-750. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.11.025

“ Humor is an essential part of our life and an important means to cope with stressful life events”.

Stieger, S., Formann, A., & Burger, C.

Torres-Marín, J., Navarro-Carrilo, G., & Carretero-Dios, H. (2018). Is the use of humor associated with anger management? The assessment of individual differences in humor styles in Spain. Personality and Individual Differences, 120, 193-201. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.08.040

“Our results showed that self-enhancing humor was associated with a higher ability to reduce angry feelings and to avoid the external expression of anger”.

Torres-Marín, J., Navarro-Carrilo, G., & Carretero-Dios, H.

Martin, R.A., Puhlik-Doris, P., Larsen, G., Gray, J., & Weir, K. (2003). Individual differences in uses of humor and their relation to psychological well-being: Development of the Humor Styles Questionnaire. Journal of Research in Personality.

“Individuals who are high on affiliative humor tend to facilitate relationships”

Martin, R.A., Puhlik-Doris, P., Larsen, G., Gray, J., & Weir, K. (In Press)

Newman, M.G., & Stone, A.A. (1996). Does humor moderate the effects of experimentally induced stress? Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 18, 101-109.

“These results suggest that humor production may be an effective coping strategy, even for individuals who do not typically use humor to cope with stress”.

Newman, M.G., & Stone, A.A. (1996)