Students’ humor styles and its use in stress coping

Abstract

The article shows the results of studying of role of students’ humor styles during coping the stress . It was shown the positive and negative humor styles regarding the interpersonal relationship. It was revealed some differences in use of humor styles during coping the stress among students of Ukrainian and Russian samples; among girls and younkers. The statistically significant correlations between students’ use of humor style and indexes of stress coping were calculated, which show that coping the stress students use negative for the relationship humor styles (aggressive humor and self-defeating humor). At the same time, the potential possibilities of affiliative humor to improve the relationship are used not enough during coping the stress both by the younkers and girls. While potential possibilities of affiliative humor to improve the relationship are used not enough during coping the stress both by the younkers and girls.<br/><br/>

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Tetiana Dutkevich

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  • EP ID EP186922
  • DOI 10.5604/01.3001.0009.5080
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Tetiana Dutkevich (2016). Students’ humor styles and its use in stress coping. International Journal of Pedagogy, Innovation and New Technologies, 3(2), 20-25. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-186922