El humor como medio para enfrentar el estrés y su relación con la salud física

Abstract

The study explores the relation between the use of humor as a coping mechanism and health. It was hypothesized that participants high in humor will report a better general state of health and will suffer for less illness symptoms than their counterparts. The participants were 81 workers. High and low humor groups were determined by selecting participants with self-reported humor at one standard deviation above and below the mean on the humor scale. The results supported the hypothesis which indicated the importance of incorporating humor to fight daily stress, and therefore to stimulate better physical health conditions.