Relationship between the use of humor and life satisfaction in Secondary School students

Abstract

Secondary school students (N=1304) and 12-17 years old, were evaluated and mood styles and their satisfaction with life were analyzed. The results show a moderately satisfied with their lives teenagers and humor styles are used in this order: affiliative, self-improvement, aggressive and self-destructive. The life satisfaction correlated with positive styles of humor (affiliative and self-improvement) and inversely with the use of aggressive humor. Just a 25.85% of adolescents in the sample, make good use of humor (greater use of positive and less negative styles) and good levels of satisfaction with life. In addition, although men make more use of humor, both positive and negative, being a woman increases life satisfaction by 0.85 points from being male, being gender variable greater weight in predicting the score life satisfaction, self-improvement followed humor, aggressive humor and affiliative humor. In conclusion, stating that the research data provide a profile of moderately satisfied with his life teenagers, with greater use of the styles of positive humor, as well as evidence of the relationship between the use of humor and life satisfaction.