ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
Feasibility of a Humor Training to Promote Humor and Decrease Stress in a Subclinical Sample: A Single-Arm Pilot Study.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Differential effects of stress-related and stress-unrelated humor in remitted depression.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Efficacy and feasibility of a humor training for people suffering from depression, anxiety, and adjustment disorder: a randomized controlled trial.BMC psychiatry · 2019Trial
- Psychometric Analysis and Cross-Cultural Comparisons of the Italian and English Sense of Humor Scale Parallel Version Short Form.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2026Article
- Web-Based Conversations Regarding Fathers Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Content Analysis.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2023Article
- "Beyond laughter": a systematic review to understand how interventions utilise comedy for individuals experiencing mental health problems.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Corrigendum: "Beyond laughter": a systematic review to understand how interventions utilise comedy for individuals experiencing mental health problems.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Humor creation during efforts to find humorous cognitive reappraisals of threatening situations.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Change in humor and sarcasm use based on anxiety and depression symptom severity during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of psychiatric research · 2021Article
- Who Benefits From Humor-Based Positive Psychology Interventions? The Moderating Effects of Personality Traits and Sense of Humor.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Humor as a protective factor against anxiety and depression.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
The present study investigates the feasibility of a humor training for a subclinical sample suffering from increased stress, depressiveness, or anxiety. Based on diagnostic interviews, 35 people were invited to participate in a 7-week humor training. Evaluation measures were filled in prior training, after training, and at a 1-month follow-up including humor related outcomes (coping humor and cheerfulness) and mental health-related outcomes (perceived stress, depressiveness, anxiety, and well-being). Outcomes were analyzed using repeated-measures ANOVAs. Within-group comparisons of intention-to-treat analysis showed main effects of time with large effect sizes on all outcomes.
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