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The link between induced emotions, the humor style and the sense of life quality

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The study showed that there is a link between induced emotions, the humor style and the sense of life quality. According to Martin’s [1] theory stating that there are four humor styles: affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive and self-defeating, the humor style of people belonging to groups in which one of the following emotions: sadness, aversion, satisfaction and joy, had earlier been induced and the control group was checked by means of the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ). Moreover, in case of each analyzed group,the level of the sense of life quality was measured. The results of this analysis show that the fact of inducing such emotions as joy or sadness is connected with decreasing or increasing the level of the “affiliative” and “aggressive” humor style. What is more, it was shown that there is a link between the level of the sense of life quality and the “affiliative” and “self-enhancing” humor style.