Predictive Ability of Humor Styles of Psychological Well-being among Universities Students
The study aims to reveal the predictive ability of humor styles of psychological well-being among universities students. The study sample consisted of 750 students (225 males and 525 females). They were chosen by a convenient sampling technique. Students were enrolled in second and summer semesters...
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Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR), the University of Jordan
2021-03-01
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The study aims to reveal the predictive ability of humor styles of psychological well-being among universities students. The study sample consisted of 750 students (225 males and 525 females). They were chosen by a convenient sampling technique. Students were enrolled in second and summer semesters for the academic year (2018\2019), To achieve the aims of the study; a humor styles scale was developed by Martin and his colleagues (2003), and a psychological well-being scale developed by Ryff and Keyes (1995) were used. The results revealed astafistically significant differences in humor styles attributed to sex in favor of females in the style of affiliative humor, and in humor self- enhancing in favor of males with aggressive humor and self-defeating humor styles. Moreover, the results showed that the level of psychological well-being for universitiy students was average on the total scale. More results and consequences are discussed in the paper.
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| spelling | doaj.art-ee482b567d634212bbf2ca160f155e962023-05-08T12:30:10ZaraDeanship of Scientific Research (DSR), the University of Jordanدراسات: العلوم التربوية1026-37132663-62122021-03-01481Predictive Ability of Humor Styles of Psychological Well-being among Universities StudentsAhmad Shraifin0Abeer Alrefai1Amal Nemrat2Faculty of Education,Yarmouk University, JordanMinistry of Higher Educatuion, JordanMinistry of Higher Educatuion, Jordan The study aims to reveal the predictive ability of humor styles of psychological well-being among universities students. The study sample consisted of 750 students (225 males and 525 females). They were chosen by a convenient sampling technique. Students were enrolled in second and summer semesters for the academic year (2018\2019), To achieve the aims of the study; a humor styles scale was developed by Martin and his colleagues (2003), and a psychological well-being scale developed by Ryff and Keyes (1995) were used. The results revealed astafistically significant differences in humor styles attributed to sex in favor of females in the style of affiliative humor, and in humor self- enhancing in favor of males with aggressive humor and self-defeating humor styles. Moreover, the results showed that the level of psychological well-being for universitiy students was average on the total scale. More results and consequences are discussed in the paper. https://dsr.ju.edu.jo/djournals/index.php/Edu/article/view/2532Humor styles, psychological well-being, universities students |
| spellingShingle | Ahmad Shraifin Abeer Alrefai Amal Nemrat Predictive Ability of Humor Styles of Psychological Well-being among Universities Students دراسات: العلوم التربوية Humor styles, psychological well-being, universities students |
| title | Predictive Ability of Humor Styles of Psychological Well-being among Universities Students |
| title_full | Predictive Ability of Humor Styles of Psychological Well-being among Universities Students |
| title_fullStr | Predictive Ability of Humor Styles of Psychological Well-being among Universities Students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Predictive Ability of Humor Styles of Psychological Well-being among Universities Students |
| title_short | Predictive Ability of Humor Styles of Psychological Well-being among Universities Students |
| title_sort | predictive ability of humor styles of psychological well being among universities students |
| topic | Humor styles, psychological well-being, universities students |
| url | https://dsr.ju.edu.jo/djournals/index.php/Edu/article/view/2532 |
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