Humor styles and personality-vulnerability to depression

Humor

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 179-195

  Frewen, Paul A ^a   Brinker, Jaylene ^a   Martin, Rod A ^a   Dozois, David J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Depression; Dysphoria; Humor; Sociotropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949263258     PISSN: 09331719     EISSN: 16133722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HUMOR.2008.009     Document Type: Article

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