Humor styles impact the relationship between symptoms of social anxiety and depression

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• 作者：Raymond P. Tucker ; Matt R. Judah ; Victoria M. O¡¯Keefe ; Adam C. Mills ; William V. Lechner ; Collin L. Davidson ; DeMond M. Grant ; LaRicka R. Wingate
• 关键词：Humor styles ; Humor ; Social anxiety ; Depression ; Dysphoria
• 刊名：Personality and Individual Differences
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：October, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：55
• 期：7
• 页码：823-827
• 全文大小：382 K

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Recent research suggests that examining humor styles may contribute to our understanding of clinical problems, such as risk and resiliency. The goal of the current study was to examine whether humor styles moderate the association between social anxiety and depressive symptoms in an unselected sample. Three-hundred and six participants (66 % female) at a large Southern US university completed self-report measures of humor styles and symptoms of social anxiety and depression. Regression analyses suggested that affiliative and self-defeating humor styles individually moderated the relationship between social anxiety and depressive symptoms. Clinical implications regarding the monitoring of humor use as a means of understanding the maintenance of depressive symptoms among socially anxious individuals are discussed.