Studies On The Relationship Between College Students’Sense Of Humor, Type Of Gender Role And Subjective Well-being

Humor, which is a particular kind of emotional expression, could lead people to feel happy or fun. Meanwhile, as a kind of trait and attitude relate to emotion, as well as a coping strategy or defense mechanism, humor could help an individual deal with plight, by changing people’s cognitive perspective or personal ideals to reinterpret the unreasonable world around him, which make it a method to relieve stress. Sense of humor is characteristics or capacity to deal with problems, stressing on the application of humor.The results suggest that, in t period of social transition, people’s desire for happiness seems stronger than ever. On the one side, Mass of existing research indicated that sense of humor was able to promote individual subjective well-being. On the other side, there are a few literatures come to opposite results, i.e., sense of humor can’t help the individual produce more happiness experience. At the same time, a large number of home and abroad literature on type of gender roles pointed that the type of androgyny, which combine those adaptive personality traits both from men and women, is the most adaptive. In the existing aboard research relate to gender roles, the" agency "and "communion", which in accordance with "masculinity " and "femininity", represents a series of basic personality trait, showed a strong and consistent relationship with subjective well-being.In this discipline background and social context, based on the review of existing related literature. this study adopt multidimensional sense of humor scale developed by Chen shu rong and Chen xue zhi from Taiwan, and revised by Wang jing,to survey participant’s sense of humor, while adopt Bern Sex Role Inventory developed by Bern, and revised by Lu qin, Su yan jie, to test participants’ type of gender role. IndeX of Well-Being,which developed by Campbell, aim to measure the participants’subjective well-being index. College students are participants’ of this study, for convenience’s sake,590college students in Hubei University were selected to be subjects. This study aimed to explore the links among sense of humor、types of gender role and subjective well-being as well as the possibility of types of gender role as a moderator between sense of humor and subjective well-being. The findings and conclusions were as follows:(1) There is a significant difference in gender, economic status on college students’sense of humor and subjective well-being;(2) During the four types of gender roles, the number of androgyny is the most;(3) Sense of humor is a predictor of high level of subjective well-being;(4) College students of androgyny develop the highest level of sense of humor as well as subjective well-being;(5) For college students, types of gender roles work as a moderator between sense of humor and subjective well-being. Specifically, the most significant moderating effect happens between the college students of androgyny and those of undifferentiated. Between the college students of masculine and those of undifferentiated, the moderating effect is fair significant. While the moderating effect between the college students of feminine and those of undifferentiated is not significant.