Exploring the Relationship Between Humour Styles, Coping Strategies and Resilience Across Adulthood

To study the association of humour styles, coping strategies and resilience across adulthood using correlational study design with 197 Indian adults using Humour Styles Questionnaire (HSQ), Brief COPE Inventory and Brief Resilience Scale. The results showed a negative correlation between affiliative and problem focused coping; affiliative humour style and emotion focused; self-enhancing humour style and emotion-focused coping strategies; self-defeating and aggressive humour styles with problem-focused coping strategies. Resilience negatively correlated with self-defeating humour style, emotion-focused coping strategies and avoidance coping strategies. The results also found a statistically significant difference in aggressive humour style and problem focused coping strategies based on age. Thus, the study gives a surface level insight on the relationship between humour, coping and resilience, indicating further research possibilities.