Sense of humor when coping with life stress
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Dark humour is a mechanism to create social bonding over a negative experience which may reduce loneliness and low-self esteem.
“This humorous tone is incongruous with the seriousness of the label, although it has been described as a mechanism to create social bonding over a negative experience which may reduce loneliness and low-self esteem (Overholser 1992).”
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Is it Still Ok to be Ok? Mental Health Labels as a Campus Technology
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- Authors
- Overholser, J. C.
- Affiliations
- Case Western Reserve University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Overholser, James C.
- ORCID
- Overholser, James C.
- Venue
- Personality and Individual Differences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1992-07
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 799-804
- ISSN
- 0191-8869 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2023679777
- Cited by
- 151
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 2.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Personality and Individual Differences (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Humor Studies and Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Keywords
- sense of humor, humor as coping, humor appreciation, loneliness, depression, self-esteem, psychological adjustment, university students, sex differences
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