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Does humor contribute to successful aging?

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Does humor contribute to successful aging?/
Author:	Maurer, Cynthia Gwen.
Description:	191 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Nathan Kogan.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-10A.
Subject:	Gerontology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3286274
ISBN:	9780549283904

Does humor contribute to successful aging?
Maurer, Cynthia Gwen.

Does humor contribute to successful aging? - 191 p.

Adviser: Nathan Kogan.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New School University, 2007.

Is humor important to aging successfully? One hundred and twenty adults, 90 women and 30 men, between the ages of 60 and 101, living at home in N.Y.C. were interviewed. They were asked questions about aging and their sense of humor: amount, liking to laugh, level of loneliness and isolation, their "subjective age" and their use of humor to cope. Do older adults think they have a sense of humor, believe that humor is important to helping them cope with the many difficult changes associated with aging and that being medically challenged or lonely does not preclude having a sense of humor? The participants were given cartoons and jokes to rate and cartoons with removed captions to fill in. Also administered were Lefcourt's (2001) Coping Humor Scale and Andrew and Withey's (1976) Delighted-Terrible Scale assessing overall life satisfaction. Background and demographic information were also collected. With permission from each participant, one person deemed significant in their respective lives was contacted to assess the participant's sense of humor, general attitude towards life and willingness to ask for help. Many significant correlations were found between the study's variables. Of particular note is the significant correlation between participant's self-report of humor and their significant other's report. This points to a high degree of veridicality in the participants' self reports. A factor analysis revealed seven factors; two health related (Medically Challenged & Activity), two interpersonal (Confident Sociability & No Loneliness) and three relevant to humor (Receptivity to Humorous Material, Humorous Disposition, and Coping with Humor). A step wise regression, controlling for demographic variables, showed that humor served as the best predictor of Confident Sociability, which includes important variables associated with successful aging: positive outlook on the future, greater difference between age and subjective age in the direction of feeling younger, no resistance to asking for help and no attributed negativity from the participants' significant other. Humor does contribute to successful aging (as defined by Confident Sociability).

ISBN: 9780549283904Subjects--Topical Terms:

533633
Gerontology.

Does humor contribute to successful aging?
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