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The impact of depression and anxiety on life satisfaction in psychiatric patients : Moderating effect of humor style

정신건강의학과 환자들의 우울 및 불안이 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향 : 유머양식의 조절효과

  • Received : 2016.10.20
  • Accepted : 2016.12.20
  • Published : 2016.12.31
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Abstract

Conventionally, humor has been regarded as an indicator of mental health, but several researchers has proposed that the effects of humor in mental health may be different depending on humor styles. Therefore, further studies about humor style and the effect of humor are worthwhile. In the present study, we shall pay attention to buffering effect of humor on a decline in mental health. we attempted to identify weather the buffering effect of humor is different depending on humor styles in psychiatric patients. For this purpose correlation analysis on humor style, depression, anxiety and life satisfaction were carried out, and hierarchical regression analysis were applied to analyse moderating effect of humor style. Consequently, self-enhancing humor has a significant moderating effect on both depression and anxiety. Whereas, affiliative humor has a significant interactive effect with only depression. The conclusion which can be drawn from this study is that positive humor can work as a protective factor on a decline in mental health, and using self-enhancing humor is effective to increase life satisfaction. It might have a convergent meaning on adaptation that psychiatric patients could have a good adaptation(by using positive humor) in real world.

전통적으로 유머는 정신건강의 지표로 여겨졌으나 유머양식에 따라 긍정적 또는 부정적 기능을 한다는 연구들이 보고되고 있어 유머의 양식과 역할에 대한 연구의 필요성이 크다. 본 연구에서는 유머의 역할 중에서도 정신병리로 인한 정신적 웰빙 저하에 대한 완충효과에 주목했고 정신건강의학과 환자들에게 흔한 증상인 우울과 불안이 삶의 만족도를 낮추는 데 어떤 양식의 유머가 완충효과를 가지는지 검증하고자 했다. 이를 위해 101명 환자들의 유머양식, 삶의 만족도, 우울, 불안 자료를 상관분석한 뒤 위계적 회귀분석을 통해 유머양식의 조절효과를 분석했다. 그 결과, 자기고양적 유머가 우울과 불안 모두에서 삶의 만족도에 유의한 조절효과를 가졌고 친화적 유머는 우울과만 유의한 상호작용을 보였다. 따라서 정신건강의학과 환자들에게 긍정적 유머가 우울과 불안 증상으로 인한 정신적 웰빙 저하에 보호요인으로 작용할 수 있으며 특히 자신을 고양시키는 유머 사용이 삶의 만족도를 높이는데 효과적임이 시사되었다. 나아가 본 연구는 비록 정신병리를 겪고 있는 정신건강의학과 환자라 할지라도 긍정적 유머를 사용함으로써 통합적이고 융합적인 의미에서의 적응 가능성을 생각해 볼 수 있게 한다.

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