The Relationship Study Of The College Students Humor Styles, Social Support And Mental Health

With the rising of positive psychology, humor is focused more and more by researchers. As an important psychological qualities and positive emotional experience, humor plays an important role in enhancing immune function, giving vent to bad feelings, regulating psychology stress, promoting social relationships and maintaining physical and mental health . The relationship between humor and health has been an important research topic for domestic and abroad scholars, the different ways and different ingredients of humor affect the individual's physical and mental health. Therefore, the correct understanding and appreciation about humor expressing properly and creating humor has great benefit in promoting physical and mental health.The college students are the pillars of state and the backbone of national , the mental health of university students not only relates to the individual growing, but also relates to the national prosperity and national rejuvenation. However, in the intense multi-collision of values of modern society, college students face all kinds of confusion and stress, prone to produce psychological problems. Therefore, the study about relationship between humor and the mental health has important practical significance in improving self-personality, accurately positioning of life, realizing self-worth,.This study uses Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ), Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS) and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-20) as research tools, uses independent sample T test and ANOVA analysis of demographic variables in humor style differences on each dimension and compared through correlation and regression analysis to explore the relationship among humor styles, social support and mental health and the intermediary role about social support between humor and mental health, The main conclusions are as follows:(1) Humor styles has four dimensions, namely Aggressive humor, Self-enhancing humor ,Affiliative humor and Mocking humor.(2) Humor styles in some of the demographic variables is significantly different: Aggressive humor has significant difference in sex, grade, professional, personality, whether is only single child, family income, Self-enhancing humor has significant difference in sex, personality, Affiliative humor has significant difference in sex, professional, personality, family sources, whether is the student leader,Mocking humor has significant difference in whether is only single child.(3) Aggressive humor is significantly negatively correlated to social support and its various dimensions, is significantly positively related to psychological problems and its various dimensions, it is a significant predictor; Self-enhancing humor and Affiliative humor are significantly positively related to social support and its various dimensions, is significantly negatively correlated to psychological problems and its various dimensions, and is a significant predictor; Mocking humor is negatively correlated to social support and its various dimensions, is positively related to psychological problems and its various dimensions, social support and its various dimensions is significantly negatively correlated to psychological problems and its dimensions.(4) Social support plays a part intermediary role among Aggressive humor, Self-enhancing humor and Affiliative humor . The three humor styles not only play a direct influence on psychological problems of college students, but also play an indirect influence on psychological problems through social support.