Humor Styles Are Related to Loneliness Across 15 Countries
Julie Aitken Schermer (University of Western Ontario)
Radosław Rogoza (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw)
Marija Branković (Singidunum University)
Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios (TU Delft - Safety and Security Science)
Tatiana Volkodav (Kuban State University)
Truong Thi Khanh Ha (Vietnam National University Hanoi)
Maria Magdalena Kwiatkowska (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw)
Eva Papazova (Institute for Research in Education)
Joonha Park (NUCB Business School)
Christopher Marcin Kowalski (University of Western Ontario)
Marta Doroszuk (Jagiellonian University)
Dzintra Iliško (Daugavpils University)
Sadia Malik (University of Sargodha)
Samuel Lins (Universidade do Porto)
Ginés Navarro-Carrillo (Universidad de Jaén)
Jorge Torres-Marín (Universidad de Granada)
Anna Wlodarczyk (Universidad Catolica de Norte)
Sibele D. Aquino (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)
Georg Krammer (University College of Teacher Education Styria)
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Abstract
The 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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