Psychology 3229A/B Chapter : Week 9- Mental Health and Humor .docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3229A/B
• Professor: Rod Martin

Document Summary

Most researched recently exam: don"t need to know all details. Use as guidelines-what are the key points and conclusions that come out of research. If you"re able to find humor in a situation that is upsetting, by definition you"re diminishing it, and that will make it less threatening. Hsq self esteem and moods for the most part the strongest corr. With well being measures is self enhancing humor negative corr. With self defeating affiliative is correlated with ise more than rsei self enhancing is related to freud concept of humor in the narrow sense- way of coping with adversity, defense mechanisms, rare precious gift. Hsq and mental toughness (clough et al, 2001) - based on kobasa (1979: resiliency commitment, control, challenge, confidence. 4 cs commitment, control, confidence, challenge strongest is self enhancing large scale study. Aggressive comes out correlated with the subscales (external)