Beyond pain intensity and catastrophizing: The association between self‐enhancing humour style and the adaptation of individuals with chronic pain

Many questions regarding the process by which self‐enhancing humour style has an effect on chronic pain individuals' adjustment remain unanswered. The aim of the present study was to analyse the association of self‐enhancing humour style with adjustment in a sample of individuals with chronic pain, over and above the role of catastrophizing and pain intensity. Adjustment was assessed using measures of depression, pain interference and flourishing. We also examined the indirect association between self‐enhancing humour style and adjustment via pain acceptance.

[1]  Sonja Heintz.  Do Others Judge My Humor Style as I Do? , 2019, European Journal of Psychological Assessment.

[2]  W. Ruch,et al.  From four to nine styles: An update on individual differences in humor , 2019, Personality and Individual Differences.

[3]  J. Luciano,et al.  Laughing away the pain: A narrative review of humour, sense of humour and pain , 2018, European journal of pain.

[4]  M. Voracek,et al.  "A joke a day keeps the doctor away?" Meta-analytical evidence of differential associations of habitual humor styles with mental health. , 2018, Scandinavian journal of psychology.

[5]  G. Garip,et al.  Laughter and humour interventions for well-being in older adults: A systematic review and intervention classification. , 2018, Complementary therapies in medicine.

[6]  Paul R Martin,et al.  Mindfulness and Chronic Headache/Migraine: Mechanisms Explored Through the Fear-Avoidance Model of Chronic Pain , 2017, The Clinical journal of pain.

[7]  R. Esteve,et al.  Psychometric characteristics of the Flourishing Scale-Spanish Version (FS-SV). The factorial structure in two samples: Students and patients with chronic pain , 2017 .

[8]  E. Morrison,et al.  Unique Contributions of Acceptance and Catastrophizing on Chronic Pain Adaptation , 2017, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine.

[9]  S. Mazlom,et al.  Investigating the Effect of Humor Therapy on Chronic Pain in the Elderly Living in Nursing Homes in Mashhad, Iran , 2017 .

[10]  W. Ruch,et al.  Experimentally Manipulating Items Informs on the (Limited) Construct and Criterion Validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire , 2017, Front. Psychol..

[11]  Gert Kruger,et al.  Humor Styles as Moderators in the Relationship Between Perceived Stress and Physical Health , 2017 .

[12]  R. Esteve,et al.  The Key Role of Pain Catastrophizing in the Disability of Patients with Acute Back Pain , 2017, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine.

[13]  T. E. Ford,et al.  Manipulating humor styles: Engaging in self-enhancing humor reduces state anxiety , 2017 .

[14]  T. Pincus,et al.  The relationship between pain, disability, guilt and acceptance in low back pain: a mediation analysis , 2017, Journal of Behavioral Medicine.

[15]  Rosa Esteve,et al.  El humor como estrategia de afrontamiento en dolor crónico , 2016 .

[16]  R. de la Vega,et al.  Pain Extent, Pain Intensity, and Sleep Quality in Adolescents and Young Adults. , 2016, Pain medicine.

[17]  David J. A. Dozois,et al.  Cognitive Distortions, Humor Styles, and Depression , 2016, Europe's journal of psychology.

[18]  A. Stone,et al.  PROMIS measures of pain, fatigue, negative affect, physical function, and social function demonstrated clinical validity across a range of chronic conditions. , 2016, Journal of clinical epidemiology.

[19]  R. Martin.  On the challenges of measuring humor styles: Response to Heintz and Ruch , 2015 .

[20]  W. Ruch,et al.  An examination of the convergence between the conceptualization and the measurement of humor styles: A study of the construct validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire , 2015 .

[21]  B. Thorn,et al.  Pain referents used to respond to the Pain Catastrophizing Scale , 2015, European journal of pain.

[22]  Carolyn Chew-Graham,et al.  Sleep Disturbance and Chronic Widespread Pain , 2015, Current Rheumatology Reports.

[23]  A. Cann,et al.  Sense of Humor, Stable Affect, and Psychological Well-Being , 2014 .

[24]  T. E. Ford,et al.  Affective Style, Humor Styles and Happiness , 2014 .

[25]  J. Miró,et al.  Pain Location and Functioning in Persons With Spinal Cord Injury , 2014, PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation.

[26]  R. Esteve,et al.  Fear-Avoidance, Pain Acceptance and Adjustment to Chronic Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study on a Sample of 686 Patients with Chronic Spinal Pain , 2014, Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine.

[27]  M. Jensen,et al.  Contributions of psychology to the understanding and treatment of people with chronic pain: why it matters to ALL psychologists. , 2014, The American psychologist.

[28]  W. Ruch,et al.  Humour styles, personality and psychological well-being: What’s humour got to do with it? , 2013 .

[29]  R. Eisinga,et al.  The reliability of a two-item scale: Pearson, Cronbach, or Spearman-Brown? , 2013, International Journal of Public Health.

[30]  C. Moran.  Humor as a Moderator of Compassion Fatigue , 2013 .

[31]  M. Hogan,et al.  Willing and able: a closer look at pain Willingness and Activity Engagement on the Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (CPAQ-8). , 2013, The journal of pain : official journal of the American Pain Society.

[32]  R. Esteve,et al.  The Path to Capacity: Resilience and Spinal Chronic Pain , 2012, Spine.

[33]  M. Seligman.  Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being , 2011 .

[34]  M. Tse,et al.  Humor Therapy: Relieving Chronic Pain and Enhancing Happiness for Older Adults , 2010, Journal of aging research.

[35]  M. Hogan,et al.  Validation of the Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (CPAQ) in an Internet sample and development and preliminary validation of the CPAQ-8 , 2010, PAIN.

[36]  Chu Kim-prieto,et al.  New Well-being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings , 2010 .

[37]  R. Edwards,et al.  Situational versus dispositional measurement of catastrophizing: associations with pain responses in multiple samples. , 2010, The journal of pain : official journal of the American Pain Society.

[38]  M. Weisman,et al.  A longitudinal analysis of humor coping and quality of life in systemic sclerosis , 2009, Psychology, health & medicine.

[39]  P. Harris,et al.  Research electronic data capture (REDCap) - A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support , 2009, J. Biomed. Informatics.

[40]  Kristopher J Preacher,et al.  Asymptotic and resampling strategies for assessing and comparing indirect effects in multiple mediator models , 2008, Behavior research methods.

[41]  Rod A. Martin.  The Psychology of Humor: An Integrative Approach , 2006 .

[42]  B. Collett,et al.  Survey of chronic pain in Europe: Prevalence, impact on daily life, and treatment , 2006, European journal of pain.

[43]  A. Helvik,et al.  Psychological well-being of adults with acquired hearing impairment , 2006, Disability and rehabilitation.

[44]  R. Dodhia.  A Review of Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences (3rd ed.) , 2005 .

[45]  K. Wilson,et al.  Acceptance and commitment therapy and the treatment of persons at risk for long-term disability resulting from stress and pain symptoms: A preliminary randomized trial , 2004 .

[46]  C. Eccleston,et al.  Coping or acceptance: what to do about chronic pain? , 2003, Pain.

[47]  M. Jensen,et al.  One- and two-item measures of pain beliefs and coping strategies , 2003, Pain.

[48]  Rod A. Martin,et al.  Individual differences in uses of humor and their relation to psychological well-being: Development of the Humor Styles Questionnaire , 2003 .

[49]  B. Singer,et al.  Biopsychosocial Challenges of the New Millennium , 2000, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.

[50]  M. Jensen,et al.  Comparative reliability and validity of chronic pain intensity measures , 1999, PAIN.

[51]  L. Hallberg,et al.  Anxiety and coping in patients with chronic work‐related muscular pain and patients with fibromyalgia , 1998, European journal of pain.

[52]  Jacob Cohen,et al.  Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences , 1979 .

[53]  Sonja Heintz.  Running Head: SELF-OTHER AGREEMENT OF HUMOR STYLES 1 Do Others Judge My Humor Style as I Do? Self-Other Agreement and Construct Validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire , 2020 .

[54]  Lindsay Mathews.  Role of Humor in Emotion Regulation: Differential Effects of Adaptive and Maladaptive Forms of Humor , 2016 .

[55]  M. Sullivan,et al.  Pain catastrophizing predicts poor response to topical analgesics in patients with neuropathic pain. , 2012, Pain research & management.

[56]  A. Darzi,et al.  Catastrophizing: a predictive factor for postoperative pain. , 2011, American journal of surgery.

[57]  Xiao-dong Yue,et al.  Humor Styles, Dispositional Optimism, and Mental Health Among Undergraduates in Hong Kong and China , 2010 .

[58]  Rod A. Martin,et al.  CHAPTER 5 – The Social Psychology of Humor , 2007 .

[59]  M. Csíkszentmihályi,et al.  Positive psychology. An introduction. , 2000, The American psychologist.

[60]  S. West,et al.  Multiple Regression: Testing and Interpreting Interactions. , 1994 .

[61]  R. Martin,et al.  Coping Humour, Stress, and Cognitive Appraisals , 1993 .

[62]  Paul Karoly,et al.  Self-report scales and procedures for assessing pain in adults , 1992 .

[63]  B. Tabachnick,et al.  Using Multivariate Statistics , 1983 .