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Title Health psychology / Ryan E. Murphy, editor
Published New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2010

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Description 1 online resource
Series Psychology of emotions, motivations and actions
Public health in the 21st century
Psychology of emotions, motivations, and actions series.
Public health in the 21st century series.
Contents ""HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY""; ""HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""For the Health of It: A Brief Version of the Situational Humor Response Questionnaire (Martin & Lefcourt, 1984)""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Theories of Humor: Arousal, Incongruity, Superiority/Disparagement, and Behavioral""; ""I. Arousal Theories""; ""II. Incongruity Theories""; ""III. Superiority/Disparagement Theories""; ""IV. Behavioral Models""; ""Summary of Theoretical Explanations for the Benefits of Humor""; ""Measurement of Humor and Laughter""; ""Study 1: Method""
""Participants, Procedure, and Measures""""Measures""; ""1) The Situational Humor Response Questionnaire (SHRQ; Martin& Lefcourt, 1984)""; ""2) Humor Initiation and Responsiveness Measure (HIRM; Bell, McGhee, & Duffy, 1986; cited in Nahemour, McCluskey-Fawcett, & McGhee, 1986)""; ""3) The Sense of Humor Questionnaire (SHQ; Svebak, 1974)""; ""4) The Coping Humor Scale (CHS; Martin & Lefcourt, 1983)""; ""5) Conformist Humor Rating Measure""; ""6) The Daily Hassles Scale (DHS; Kanner, Coyne, Schaefer, & Lazarus, 1981)""; ""7) The Health Opinion Survey (HOS; MacMillan, 1957)""; ""Results""
""Item Selection & Descriptive Statistics""""Construct Validity""; ""SHRQ Correlates""; ""Sex Differences""; ""Discussion""; ""Study 2: Method""; ""Participants, Procedure, and Measures""; ""1) Daily Hassles (DHS-56; see e.g., Delongis, Folkman, & Lazarus, 1988)""; ""2) The Inventory of College Students� Recent Life Experiences (ICRLES17; Korotkov, in press-a and b; see Kohn, Lafreniere, & Gurevich, 1990 for the full measure)""; ""3) Short-form Perceived Stress Scale (PSS; Cohen & Williamson, 1988)""; ""4) The Memorial University of Newfoundland Scale of Happiness (MUNSH
Kozma, Stones, & McNeil, 1991)""""5) The Memorial University of Newfoundland Mood Scale (MUMS; see Kozma et al., 1991 and McNeil, 1987)""; ""6) Dispositional Optimism (OPT; see e.g., Scheier & Carver, 1987)""; ""7) Extraversion (EXT)""; ""8) Memorial University of Newfoundland Symptomatology Scale (MUSS; Korotkov, 2000)""; ""Results""; ""Descriptive Statistics""; ""Construct Validity""; ""SHRQ Correlates""; ""Sex Differences""; ""Stress Moderation""
""The Inventory of College Students Recent Life Experiences -17. Interestingly, when the Inventory of College Students Recent Life Experiences was the stress predictor, there was a marginally significant interaction with the full SHRQ measure in relatio...""""The Perceived Stress Scale. No significant interaction effects were found for either version of the SHRQ when the Perceived Stress Scale was the stress predictor, although at the third step of each analysis, both versions of the SHRQ predicted th...""; ""Discussion""; ""Conclusion""; ""Psychometrics and the 12-item SHRQ""
Notes "Nova biomedical"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record
Subject Medicine and psychology.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Healing -- Psychological aspects
Medicine and psychology
Form Electronic book
Author Murphy, Ryan E
LC no. 2020686860
ISBN 9781617611650
1617611654