The prevalence of sense of humor in a large, unselected county population in Norway: Relations with age, sex, and some health indicators

IF 1.2 3区 心理学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Humor-International Journal of Humor Research Pub Date : 2004-01-03 DOI:10.1515/HUMR.2004.001
S. Svebak, R. Martin, J. Holmen
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A 3-item humor measure derived from the Sense of Humor Questionnaire (SHQ: Svebak 1996) was included in a health survey of all adult residents of a Norwegian county (study n ¼ 65,333). Health-related measures included subjective health satisfaction, prevalence of common bodily complaints (e.g., nausea, diarrhea, pounding heart, dyspnea, musculuskeletal pain), blood pressure, and body mass index. SHQ mean scores were slightly skewed toward high values. Overall, humor scores (metamessage sensitivity, liking of humor, laughter expressiveness) declined with age (r ¼� .29) and were slightly higher in males than females among younger age cohorts. Sense of humor was positively correlated with overall health satisfaction (r ¼ .21) and negatively related to systolic blood pressure (r ¼� .14). However, after controlling for age, only the partial correlation with subjective health satisfaction remained greater than .10 (partial r ¼ .12). Due to the large number of participants, coe‰cients were statistically significant despite very low explained variance. Overall, these data, comprising the largest study of humor and health ever undertaken, provide very little evidence for a direct relationship between sense of humor and physical health parameters.
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挪威大量未选定的县人口幽默感的流行程度:与年龄、性别和一些健康指标的关系
一项来自幽默感问卷(SHQ: Svebak 1996)的三项幽默测量被纳入挪威一个县所有成年居民的健康调查(研究号65333)。与健康相关的测量包括主观健康满意度、常见身体不适(如恶心、腹泻、心跳加速、呼吸困难、肌肉骨骼疼痛)的患病率、血压和体重指数。SHQ平均分数稍微偏向高值。总体而言,幽默得分(元信息敏感度、幽默喜好程度、笑声表达能力)随着年龄的增长而下降(0.29),在年轻人群中,男性的得分略高于女性。幽默感与整体健康满意度呈正相关(r = 0.21),与收缩压呈负相关(r = 0.14)。然而,在控制年龄后,只有与主观健康满意度的偏相关大于0.10(偏r 0.12)。由于参与者人数众多,尽管解释方差很低,但仍有统计学意义。总的来说,这些数据构成了迄今为止最大规模的幽默和健康研究,但几乎没有证据表明幽默感和身体健康参数之间存在直接关系。
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