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Resilience as Moderator Between Workplace Humour and Well-Being, a Positive Psychology Perspective

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Humour, a positive psychology (PP1.0) construct (Fischer, Carow, & Eger, Mistakes, Errors, and Failures Across Cultures, Springer, 2020) is a central component of resiliency. Having a sense of humour is a sign of human strength, intelligence, and psychological maturity (Abel, Journal: The Official Publication of the Ontario Occupational Health Nurses Association, 35(2), 32, 2016; Ghaemi, A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness, Penguin Books, 2011). Humour allows individuals to emotionally distance themselves from a stressful event in order to cope. Humour is considered as a crucial job resource for individuals across cultures. It has been further credited for several positive outcomes such as resilience and well-being (Billig, Not All Claps and Cheers, Routledge, 2018). The objective of the chapter is to present a critical review of the moderating role of resilience in adaptive humour styles (self-enhancing and affiliative humour) and well-being at work from a PP1.0 perspective. The findings of the study of Bhattacharyya, Jena, and Pradhan (2019, Journal of Health Management, 21(1), 160–176) indicate a significant association between the adaptive humour styles and well-being at work, with resilience as a moderator.

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Oosthuizen, R.M. (2021). Resilience as Moderator Between Workplace Humour and Well-Being, a Positive Psychology Perspective. In: Vanderheiden, E., Mayer, CH. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Humour Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78280-1_14

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