Islamabad, Feb 18 (TNS): Researchers from the University of Granada in Spain set out to investigate different types of humor, and they came to some surprising conclusions.
Contrary to popular belief, they say, those who make self-deprecating jokes do not have low self-esteem, nor are they prone to depression. They may, in fact, be happier and better socially adjusted than most people. In particular,” says lead study author Jorge Torres-Marín, we have observed that a greater tendency to employ self-defeating humor is indicative of high scores in psychological well-being dimensions such as happiness and sociability. So, in other words, my self-deprecating jokes may actually be a sign that I’m a happier and better-adjusted person who probably has more friends than you do. Secretly though, I may also hate everybody and that’s the truth because, well, I would never joke about that. The researchers reached their conclusions which are now published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences after applying psychometric analysis to study the humor of 1,068 adults aged 1865. To study the link between different styles of humor, well-being, and personality traits, Torres-Marín and colleagues applied the traditional division between four types of humor affiliative, aggressive, self-enhancing, and self-defeating. The researchers explain that pro-social, or “affiliative” humor, is “characterized by saying amusing remarks or telling jokes, being considered a type of benevolent humor.
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