@article{Ford_McCreight_Richardson_2014, title={Affective Style, Humor Styles and Happiness}, volume={10}, url={https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/766}, DOI={10.5964/ejop.v10i3.766}, abstractNote={<p>The present study examined the relationships between dispositional approach and avoidance motives, humor styles, and happiness. In keeping with previous research, approach motives and the two positive humor styles (self-enhancing and affiliative) positively correlated with happiness, whereas avoidance motives and the two negative humor styles (self-defeating and aggressive) negatively correlated with happiness. Also, we found support for three new hypotheses. First, approach motives correlated positively with self-enhancing and affiliative humor styles. Second, avoidance motives correlated positively with self-defeating humor style, and third, the positive relationship between approach motives and happiness was mediated by self-enhancing humor style.</p&gt;}, number={3}, journal={Europe’s Journal of Psychology}, author={Ford, Thomas E. and McCreight, Katelyn A. and Richardson, Kyle}, year={2014}, month={Aug.}, pages={451-463} }