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Humour and social support as moderators of life event stress in studentsOrr, Billie Y. 01 January 1985 (has links)
No description available.
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Refusing To Go Silently: Female Wit As Combating A Culture Of Silence In Frances Burney And Elizabeth Inchbald's TextsWeber, Megan M 16 April 2010 (has links)
In the hands of two prominent authors, Elizabeth Inchbald and Frances Burney, a critical paradox concerning female silence arises: while both authors operate very successfully in the publishing world, both do so while subverting impositions of silence, exhibiting a clear breach of propriety. An examination of Inchbald's novel A Simple Story and play Wives as they Were, Maids as they Are and Burney's novel Cecilia and play The Witlings, elucidates how each author adapts literary genres to portray female wit, exposing eighteenth-century impositions of silence in the process. By engendering female characters with the ability to employ humor as young women, Burney and Inchbald develop characters with agency and articulation.
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The effects of a course in American jokes on a class of intermediate level ESL studentsCarruthers, John R. 01 January 1987 (has links)
Teachers of English to speakers of other languages have often incorporated humor in the curriculum, yet a recent computer search revealed that there were no empirical studies which have shown that curricular humor enhances English language learning. The three specific questions of the thesis are: does the use of curricular humor 1) improve memory/recall, 2) improve over-all English proficiency, and 3) result in the subjects' having more positive attitudes towards Americans, and if so, does a more positive attitude correlate with improved memory/proficiency?
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An Annotated Bibliography of Literary Mormon HumorBartholomew, Sherlene Hall 01 January 1998 (has links) (PDF)
This "Annotated Bibliography of Literary Mormon Humor" includes over five hundred sources, cross-referenced to pertinent commentary and criticism, and divided into seven sections: "Humor in Mormon Fiction," "Humor in Mormon Non-Fiction," "Mormon Criticism Assessing ‘Inside Humor,’" "Gentile Criticism of the Saints' Humor," "Gentile Humor About Mormons," "Mormon Criticism of Gentile Humor," and "Mormon Internet Humor," all made accessible to scholars by a comprehensive index of more than one thousand topics. The author has filed selected photocopied pages of alphabetized, annotated items by author, or chronologically as periodicals, into a twenty-volume Archive of Mormon Humor in Literature, housed at the Center for Study of Christian Values in Literature, 3076E JKHB, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. The introduction includes the author's survey of recent trends in Mormon literary humor.This compilation of Mormon humor and literary criticism conclusively dispels the notion that Mormons are humorless. Indeed, this bibliography convincingly documents the fact that the Mormon people enjoy laughing at themselves.
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Sense of humor and the severity of hassles among elementary school childrenCasertano, Mark 20 September 2005 (has links)
The study was designed to provide empirical data investigating children’s level of sense of humor with the severity of the hassles reported by the children. The sample included 82 children, 50 boys and 32 girls, ranging in age from 8-11 years, and representing the third, fourth, and fifth grades. Both male and female children participated in the study.
The Hassles Scale for Elementary School Children (HSESC), a 22-item checklist, was administered to the children to assess the frequency of selected important hassles and the severity of the hassles. Subjects indicated those items that occurred in the past week and rated the severity of all the hassles on a 5-point Likert type response scale. The Children's Self-Rating of Humor (CSRH) questionnaire, a 20-item questionnaire, was completed by the children to evaluate children's level of sense of humor. Subjects rated each question on a 5-point Likert type response scale. Subjects were administered the scales individually and in small groups. To provide a more in-depth understanding of children’s use of humor, a subsample of 12 children, six boys and six girls, randomly selected to represent the three grade levels and high and low humor scores participated in a follow-up interview.
The results of this study did not provide support for the contention that children with a high sense of humor would report hassles as being less upsetting as compared with children with a low sense of humor that would report hassles as being more upsetting. Further results seemed to indicate that the use of humor in stressful situations depended more on the child’s perception of the severity of the hassles rather than on the child's perceived level of sense of humor. The less upsetting the stressful situation was to the child the more likely the child would use humor and the more effective humor was in dealing with the stressful situation. More importantly, this study indicated that when humor was used it was not specific to the stressful situation but rather as a distraction, a more general coping mechanism.
A recommendation for future research should include the need for a better understanding of how children produce humor in stressful situations. Also, future research should focus on investigating the differences in the effects of different types of humor on stressful situations and the timing of using humor on whether it is an immediate or delayed response to a stressful situation. Future studies should focus on the cognitive processes of children’s humor when applied to stressful situations. / Ph. D.
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A study of humor and gender in perceiver appreciation of two television sitcoms : 3rd rock from the sun and FriendsBreslin, Patrick C. 01 July 2001 (has links)
No description available.
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Humor and the problem solving behavior of married couplesStrombom, Tracy A. January 1989 (has links)
The study was designed to measure the effects of a humorous experience on the problem solving behavior of married couples. Twenty married couples were randomly assigned to either a treatment or non-treatment group. Treatment couples viewed a humorous videotape prior to completing Olson and Ryder's Inventory of Marital Conflict (IMC). All couples were videotaped during their discussions of the IMC case situations and the tapes were later coded using Olson and Ryder's Marital and Family Interaction Coding System (MFICS). Data from the MFICS and the Post Discussion Form of the IMC were used in the statistical analysis.
Couples who watched the tape prior to problem solving reported significantly higher levels of satisfaction with their decisions than couples who did not experience humor. They also reported a significantly higher level of involvement in discussing case situations that were similar to their own experiences than did the non-treatment group.
It was predicted that treatment couples would experience less conflict and laugh more than non-treatment couples. This did not happen. It was also expected that there would be an interaction between the level of conflict that couples exhibited with the treatment condition and that the interaction would affect amounts of satisfaction and laughter. This did not demonstrate significance.
The findings suggest that married couples can benefit from the use of humor prior to problem solving. They appear to be more focused in their efforts and to experience higher levels of satisfaction with the results. / Ph. D.
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The implementation of humour as deflective technique in contact boundary disturbanceJacobs, Susanne 30 November 2007 (has links)
One potent, yet little recognized tool in therapy is humour. As the desire to be entertained through humour is near universal the establishment and return of a positive sense of humour may be considered a goal of therapy. The goal of Gestalt exploration is awareness. From its origin Gestalt theory includes addressing body experiences such as laughter and emotional expression through humour.
In Gestalt Theory a contact boundary disturbance such as deflection refers to the ways in which individuals may refuse contact with their environment in order to avoid aware¬ness.
The goal of this study was to explore the implementation of humour as a deflective technique where contact boundary disturbances occur, to bring about change. Aspects of humour, namely the ability to perceive the comic as well as the ability to produce it, aid therapy and relationship building, and help the client to deflect in a way that enhances emotional well-being. / Humor, geringskat in terapie, is 'n uiters sterk hulpmiddel. Aangesien die
behoefte om vermaak te word deur humor universeel is, is die terugkeer van 'n
positiewe sin vir humor 'n deurdagte doel vir terapie. Die doel van die Gestalt
eksplorasie is bewuswording. Van die begin af sluit Gestalt teorie
liggaamservaringe soos lag en emosioneie uitdrukking deur humor in.
In Gestalt Teorie verwys 'n kontakgrens versteuring soos defleksie, na die wyse
waarop individue kontak met die omgewing vermy, om sodoende bewuswording
te vermy.
Die doel van die studie was om die implementering van humor as deflektiewe
tegniek, waar kontak grens versteuringe en weerstande voorkom, as verandering
teweeg kan bring. Aspekte van humor, naamlik die moontlikheid om die komiese
waar te neem, sowel as om dit te produseer, versterk terapie and vehoudingsbou,
beide aspekte help die klient om te deflekteer op so 'n wyse dat emosioneie
goedvoel bevorder word. / Social Work / M. Diac. (Play Therapy)
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The implementation of humour as deflective technique in contact boundary disturbanceJacobs, Susanne 30 November 2007 (has links)
One potent, yet little recognized tool in therapy is humour. As the desire to be entertained through humour is near universal the establishment and return of a positive sense of humour may be considered a goal of therapy. The goal of Gestalt exploration is awareness. From its origin Gestalt theory includes addressing body experiences such as laughter and emotional expression through humour.
In Gestalt Theory a contact boundary disturbance such as deflection refers to the ways in which individuals may refuse contact with their environment in order to avoid aware¬ness.
The goal of this study was to explore the implementation of humour as a deflective technique where contact boundary disturbances occur, to bring about change. Aspects of humour, namely the ability to perceive the comic as well as the ability to produce it, aid therapy and relationship building, and help the client to deflect in a way that enhances emotional well-being. / Humor, geringskat in terapie, is 'n uiters sterk hulpmiddel. Aangesien die
behoefte om vermaak te word deur humor universeel is, is die terugkeer van 'n
positiewe sin vir humor 'n deurdagte doel vir terapie. Die doel van die Gestalt
eksplorasie is bewuswording. Van die begin af sluit Gestalt teorie
liggaamservaringe soos lag en emosioneie uitdrukking deur humor in.
In Gestalt Teorie verwys 'n kontakgrens versteuring soos defleksie, na die wyse
waarop individue kontak met die omgewing vermy, om sodoende bewuswording
te vermy.
Die doel van die studie was om die implementering van humor as deflektiewe
tegniek, waar kontak grens versteuringe en weerstande voorkom, as verandering
teweeg kan bring. Aspekte van humor, naamlik die moontlikheid om die komiese
waar te neem, sowel as om dit te produseer, versterk terapie and vehoudingsbou,
beide aspekte help die klient om te deflekteer op so 'n wyse dat emosioneie
goedvoel bevorder word. / Social Work / M. Diac. (Play Therapy)
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Die manifestering van humor in geselekteerde Afrikaanse kortverhaalteksteVosloo, Jan, 1934- 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2003. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: At the start of the twentieth century Afrikaans humour was researched quite
intensively. Since then, however, such research has been relatively sporadic and has
concentrated on related sub-genres of humour, such as satire, irony and wit. This
dissertation investigates anew the phenomenon of humour as manifested in Afrikaans
short story texts, from the dual starting points of a current context and of the extensive
theoretical studies done by other researchers worldwide. In the process, humour is
viewed as a communicative strategy, a combination of codes which writers utilize
within a specific socio-political context in order to create humorous effects and elicit
resultant reactions from readers. One of the primary aims of this investigation into the
codes and strategies employed by Afrikaans writers in the humorous short story
genre, is to determine whether they coincide with universal tendencies or whether
they have certain unique features.
After a broad exposition of the historical background and of the evolution of the
continually changing concept humour, attention is paid to theories regarding its nature
and effect. The creative interaction between related modi, like comedy, satire, irony,
wit, burlesque, travesty, parody, caricature, grotesque, absurd and black humour and
their contribution to one's experience of humour are all researched. Initially, the
Afrikaans humour-tradition is set against its historical background. Following this, a
more detailed investigation considers strategies of humour selected from Afrikaans
short story texts from 1884 to 2001. These are selected for their variety of types of
humour and according to criteria relating to structure, style and convention. The major
emphasis is placed on short stories of the past two decades, in an attempt to measure
the era-relatedness of humour and the interaction with the prevailing socio-political
context. These various stylistic strategies are contextualized in writers' deliberate
attempts to create a humorous outcome. Along with generally universal characteristics
- like the interaction of humorous and non-humorous texts, with time-bound trends (in
common with other literatures) - it is concluded that the Afrikaans humorous short
story is strongly ancho.ed both in relevance and contextuality. Humour remains a
vibrant aspect of the Afrikaans short story and, by keeping this tradition alive, it also
remains popular with the reading public. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Nadat daar aan die begin van die twintigste eeu betreklik intensiewe navorsing oor
humor in Afrikaans gepubliseer is, het sedertdien slegs sporadiese studies verskyn oor
verwante humormodi soos satire, ironie en geestigheid. Hierdie proefskrif wil
gevolglik vanuit 'n huidige konteks, en na aanleiding van die uitgebreide teoretisering
en navorsing elders ter wêreld, die verskynsel humor opnuut ondersoek, soos
gemanifesteer in Afrikaanse kortverhaaltekste. Humor word in die proses benader as
'n kommunikatiewe strategie, 'n versameling kodes wat skrywers binne 'n bepaalde
sosio-politieke konteks aanwend, met die oogmerk om humoristiese effekte te
bewerkstellig en bepaalde reaksies by lesers uit te lok. Dié studie wil veral vasstel
watter kodes en strategieë Afrikaanse humoristiese kortverhaalskrywers hierby
gebruik, of dit ooreenstem met breë tendense elders of eie is aan Afrikaans.
Na 'n oorsigtelike uiteensetting van die historiese grondslae en die evolusie van die
steeds veranderende begrip humor, word aandag bestee aan teorieë oor die aard en
effek daarvan. Die vrugbare interaksie tussen verwante modi soos die komedie, satire,
ironie, geestigheid, die burleske, travestie, parodie, karikatuur, die groteske, die
absurde en swart humor, asook die bydrae daarvan tot die humorbelewing, word
vervolgens ondersoek. Die Afrikaanse humortradisie word eers oorsigtelik histories
nagespeur, waarna nadere ondersoek ingestel word na humorstrategieë aan die hand
van Afrikaanse kortverhaaltekste wat dateer van 1884 tot 2001, geselekteer op grond
van sowel verskeidenheid met betrekking tot die tipe humor as kriteria soos struktuur,
styl en konvensie. Die klem val op kortverhale uit die afgelope twee dekades, ten
einde aspekte soos die tydgebondenheid van humor en die interaksie met die
heersende sosiopolitieke konteks te probeer bepaal. Die verskillende stylstrategieë wat
geïdentifiseer is, word in verband gebring met die skrywers se berekende opset om 'n
humoristiese uitkoms te bewerkstellig. Naas meer universele kenmerke, soos die
wisselwerking tussen humor en erns in dié tipe tekste en tydspesifieke neigings (in
ooreenstemming met ander letterkundes), soos die toename in groteske en absurde
tipe verhale, word bevind dat die Afrikaanse humor- en humoristiese verhaal sterk
kontekstueel veranker is. Humor in die Afrikaanse kortverhaal word steeds op 'n
lewenskragtige wyse beoefen deur skrywers en bly gewild by lesers.
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