國中生幽默感對於生活壓力、身心健康之調節作用

The Moderating Effect of Sense of Humor to Life Stress and Physical-Mental Health for Junior High School Students

何茉如(Mo-Ju Ho) ； 林世華(Shih-Hwa Lin)

《教育心理學報》 32卷1期 (2000/08) Pp. 123-156

https://doi.org/10.6251/BEP.20000705

摘要

本研究旨在探討國中生的幽默感與生活壓力、身心健康的關係，以及幽默感對於生活壓力與身心健康的調節作用。以台北縣、市十二所國中學生，共1039名為研究對象。使用的研究工具包括「幽默欣賞問卷」、「幽默創造量表」、「情境幽默創造測驗」、「幽默因應量表」、「同儕互評表」、「青少年生活經驗事件量表」、「一般健康量表」。調查所得資料以典型相關分析法，以及比較不同典型相關分析的方式進行處理。研究結果如下：1.國中生客觀生活壓力、幽默感與主觀生活壓力之間具有典型相關存在。2.情境幽默創造、他評幽默因應對於與客觀家庭、學校、生長發育壓力有關的主觀學校壓力，可能具有調節作用。3.國中生主觀生活壓力、幽默感與身心健康之間具有典型相關存在。4.情境幽默創造、自評幽默因應對於與主觀異性交友、家庭事件壓力有關的焦慮和不眠症、社會功能障礙，可能具有調節作用。

關鍵字

生活壓力 ； 身心健康 ； 幽默感 ； 國中生 ； 調節作用

並列摘要

The purpose of this study were to investigate : (1) the relationship between sense of humor, life stress, and physical- mental health ,and (2) the stress-moderating effect of sense of humor to perceived life stress and physical- mental health for junior high school students. The research sample consisted of 1039 junior high school students from 12 junior high schools in Taipei City and Taipei County. Instruments used in this study included ”Humor Appreciation Questionnaire”, “Humor Initiation Scale”, ”Situational Humor Production Test”, ”Coping Humor Scale”, ”peer assessment measure of humorous coping”, “the Adolescents' Life Events Scale”, and “General Health Scale”. Data obtained were analyzed by connonical correlation analysis.
Primary findings were as follows (1) The linear combination scores of actual life stress and sense of humor were significantly correlated with the linear combination scores of perceived life stress. (2) Situational humor production and peer assessment of humorous coping showed possible moderating effect on the relationship between actual domestic events stress, actual school events stress, actual psycho-physical developmental events stress and perceived school events stress. (3) The linear combination scores of perceived life stress and sense of humor were significantly correlated with the linear combination scores of physical-mental health. (4) Situational humor production and self assessment of humorous coping showed possible moderating effect on the relationship between perceived friendship with the opposite sex events stress, perceived domestic events stress, and anxiety, insomnia and social dysfunction.

並列關鍵字

life stress ； physical-mental health ； sense of humor ； junior high school students ； moderating effect

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