The Relation of Humor to Depression and Personality

1993 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 755-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie L. Deaner ◽  
Jasmin T. McConatha
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Inventory Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Humor ◽  
Female College ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
And Coping

The present study focused on an assessment of humor, depression, and personality. 38 male and 91 female college students responded to five self-report questionnaires, i.e., Martin and Lefcourt's Situational Humor Response Questionnaire and Coping Humor Scale, Svebak's Sense of Humor Questionnaire, Zimmerman's Inventory to Diagnose Depression, and the Eysenck Personality Inventory. Analysis indicated that individuals who scored lower on the depression scale tended to score higher on the Coping Humor Scale, Extraversion, and Neuroticism. Also, individuals scoring higher on the humor scales tended to score higher on Extraversion and Emotional Stability. These personality factors appear to be strongly related to the sense of humor construct and depression. Perhaps the personality factors of introversion and neuroticism may be employed to identify a predisposition toward depression.

Relationships of personality and lifestyle with mobile phone dependence among female nursing students

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoko Ezoe ◽  
Masahiro Toda ◽  
Kimio Yoshimura ◽  
Aki Naritomi ◽  
Rei Den ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Nursing School ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Unhealthy Lifestyle ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Female College

To clarify the relationships of personality and lifestyle with mobile phone dependence, defined as an intermittent craving to use a mobile phone or excessive mobile phone use, we administered a self-report questionnaire to 132 female college students attending a nursing school in Osaka, Japan. Results of multiple regression analysis indicated that scores for extroversion and neuroticism were positively related to the score of the Mobile Phone Dependence Questionnaire (MPDQ; Toda, Monden, Kubo, & Morimoto, 2004), while the score for healthy practices was negatively related to that of the MPDQ. These findings suggest that mobile phone dependence in female college students is associated with elevated traits of extroversion and neuroticism, as well as an unhealthy lifestyle.

Biofeedback, Competitive Set, and Type A/Type B Interactions with Female College Students

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 983-989 ◽  
Author(s):  
William T. Drennen ◽  
Harriet H. Ford ◽  
Larry L. Rutledge
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Muscle Tension ◽  
Type A ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Type B ◽  
Frontalis Muscle ◽  
Female College ◽  
Survey Form

From a pool of female college students who volunteered and took the modified Jenkins Survey (Form T), 22 subjects were classified as Type A (scores of 11 or above) or as Type B (scores of 5 or below). Subjects were subdivided into six groups (Type A/B) as control, biofeedback/relaxation, or biofeedback/relaxation with competitive set. EMG (frontalis muscle tension) scores were assessed over five blocks of five trials. Pre- and postanxiety self-report measures were also obtained for all subjects. Analysis suggested an interaction of Type (A or B) with set (competitive only). EMG scores indicated that Type A subjects were more tense and remained more tense than Type B subjects under a competitive set. EMG tension scores diminished over trials for all groups. Pre- and postanxiety scores indicated a reduction in self-reported state anxiety for all groups combined, but no differential reductions with respect to group, condition, or set.

Intergenerational Transfer of Normative Parental Attitudes

1986 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 711-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Hanson ◽  
Ronald L. Mullis
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Parental Attitudes ◽  
Intergenerational Transfer ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Adolescent Parenting ◽  
Inventory Analysis ◽  
Female College ◽  
Mother And Daughter ◽  
Demographic Effects

The parenting and child-rearing attitudes of 97 female college students along with their parents were assessed using the Adult Adolescent Parenting Inventory. Analysis showed a generational effect for empathic awareness of children's needs between mother and daughter. Other cross-sex and demographic effects were discussed.

Validity of the Eysenck Extraversion Scale: Replication and Extension

1968 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 706-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank J. Vingoe
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
California Psychological Inventory ◽  
Total Group ◽  
Female College ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Psychological Inventory

66 female college students rated themselves and their peers on extraversion and filled out the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) and the California Psychological Inventory (CPI). The group was dichotomized into Introverts and Extraverts on the basis of their self-ratings and their extraversion scores. Self-rated Introvert and Extravert criterion groups were significantly different from each other and from the total group on Extraversion score and Introvert and Extravert groups as determined by Extraversion score were significantly different from each other and from the total group on the basis of self-ratings, thus supporting the validity of the extraversion scale. Correlations of scores on the EPI and the CPI support the validity of the extraversion and neuroticism scales.

An Examination of Sexual Victimization, Self-Injurious Behaviors, and Suicidality Among Female College Students

2019 ◽  
pp. 088626051988016
Author(s):  
Nicholas W. Bakken ◽  
Lisa M. Kruse
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sexual Victimization ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Effective Prevention ◽  
Female College ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Relationship

Many studies have established a relationship between suicidal ideation and sexual victimization, particularly among women; yet, few have looked specifically at samples of college students or at the potentially mediating effects that several risk factors and coping mechanisms related to sexual victimization may have on suicidality. The current study sought to examine the relationship between reported sexual victimization and suicidality, and more specifically the mediating role that depression and nonsuicidal self-injury had on this relationship. Data were collected from a random sample of 732 female college students attending a Midwestern public university. Path analysis results indicate that while sexual victimization did not have a direct effect on suicidality, it did have an observable and significant mediating indirect effect on suicidality. The current study informs both our theoretical understanding of how victimization affects college women’s lives and our capacity to develop and implement effective prevention and intervention programs for college students.

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