"Nova biomedical"

""HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY""; ""HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""For the Health of It: A Brief Version of the Situational Humor Response Questionnaire (Martin & Lefcourt, 1984)""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Theories of Humor: Arousal, Incongruity, Superiority/Disparagement, and Behavioral""; ""I. Arousal Theories""; ""II. Incongruity Theories""; ""III. Superiority/Disparagement Theories""; ""IV. Behavioral Models""; ""Summary of Theoretical Explanations for the Benefits of Humor""; ""Measurement of Humor and Laughter""; ""Study 1: Method""

""Participants, Procedure, and Measures""""Measures""; ""1) The Situational Humor Response Questionnaire (SHRQ; Martin& Lefcourt, 1984)""; ""2) Humor Initiation and Responsiveness Measure (HIRM; Bell, McGhee, & Duffy, 1986; cited in Nahemour, McCluskey-Fawcett, & McGhee, 1986)""; ""3) The Sense of Humor Questionnaire (SHQ; Svebak, 1974)""; ""4) The Coping Humor Scale (CHS; Martin & Lefcourt, 1983)""; ""5) Conformist Humor Rating Measure""; ""6) The Daily Hassles Scale (DHS; Kanner, Coyne, Schaefer, & Lazarus, 1981)""; ""7) The Health Opinion Survey (HOS; MacMillan, 1957)""; ""Results""

""Item Selection & Descriptive Statistics""""Construct Validity""; ""SHRQ Correlates""; ""Sex Differences""; ""Discussion""; ""Study 2: Method""; ""Participants, Procedure, and Measures""; ""1) Daily Hassles (DHS-56; see e.g., Delongis, Folkman, & Lazarus, 1988)""; ""2) The Inventory of College Students� Recent Life Experiences (ICRLES17; Korotkov, in press-a and b; see Kohn, Lafreniere, & Gurevich, 1990 for the full measure)""; ""3) Short-form Perceived Stress Scale (PSS; Cohen & Williamson, 1988)""; ""4) The Memorial University of Newfoundland Scale of Happiness (MUNSH

Kozma, Stones, & McNeil, 1991)""""5) The Memorial University of Newfoundland Mood Scale (MUMS; see Kozma et al., 1991 and McNeil, 1987)""; ""6) Dispositional Optimism (OPT; see e.g., Scheier & Carver, 1987)""; ""7) Extraversion (EXT)""; ""8) Memorial University of Newfoundland Symptomatology Scale (MUSS; Korotkov, 2000)""; ""Results""; ""Descriptive Statistics""; ""Construct Validity""; ""SHRQ Correlates""; ""Sex Differences""; ""Stress Moderation""

""The Inventory of College Students Recent Life Experiences -17. Interestingly, when the Inventory of College Students Recent Life Experiences was the stress predictor, there was a marginally significant interaction with the full SHRQ measure in relatio...""""The Perceived Stress Scale. No significant interaction effects were found for either version of the SHRQ when the Perceived Stress Scale was the stress predictor, although at the third step of each analysis, both versions of the SHRQ predicted th...""; ""Discussion""; ""Conclusion""; ""Psychometrics and the 12-item SHRQ""