Abstract The present study examined the relationship between humor styles and depression using two methods of examination: (1) the mean humor style differences between individuals who reported that they had been diagnosed with depression versus those who did not report being depressed; and (2) the phenotypic, genetic, and environmental correlations between humor styles and a short scale assessing depressed affect created from preexisting measures in archival data. Participants were 1154 adult Australians, consisting of 339 monozygotic twin pairs and 238 dizygotic twin pairs. With respect to mean differences, depressed individuals were found to use self-defeating humor more and self-enhancing humor less than non-depressed adults. When the depressed affect scale score was analyzed, negative correlations were found with both affiliative and self-enhancing humor. A positive correlation was found between depressed affect and both aggressive and self-defeating humor. These phenotypic correlations were also found to have some significant genetic and environmental correlations.

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幽默风格与抑郁关系的行为遗传分析

摘要 本研究使用两种检查方法检验幽默风格与抑郁之间的关系：（1）报告被诊断出患有抑郁症的个体与未报告抑郁的个体之间的平均幽默风格差异；(2) 幽默风格与评估由档案数据中预先存在的措施产生的抑郁情绪的短期量表之间的表型、遗传和环境相关性。参与者是 1154 名成年澳大利亚人，包括 339 对同卵双胞胎和 238 对异卵双胞胎。关于平均差异，发现抑郁症患者比非抑郁症成年人更多地使用自我挫败的幽默和更少的自我增强幽默。在分析抑郁情绪量表得分时，亲和性幽默和自我提升幽默都呈负相关。发现抑郁情绪与攻击性和自我挫败的幽默之间存在正相关。还发现这些表型相关性具有一些显着的遗传和环境相关性。