The Relationships between Motives and Expressions of Humor and Psychosocial Health.

Three types of expressions of humor and five motives for expressing humor were used to investigate the relationships between humor and psychosocial health. e results indicated that aggressive humor was positively and negatively related to psychosocial health, depending on the motive. Furthermore, self-disparaging humor (considered to be negatively related to psychosocial health) and playful humor (considered to be positively related) might be unrelated to psychosocial health depending on the motives. These results suggest that it is important to analyze the motives for the expression of humor when considering the relationship between types of humor and psychosocial health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]