Putting a spotlight on daily humor behaviors: Dimensionality and relationships with personality, subjective well-being, and humor styles

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 104, Issue , 2017, Pages 407-412

  Heintz, Sonja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Big Five; Criterion validity; Daily diaries; Humor behaviors; Humor Styles Questionnaire; Personality; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EXTRAVERSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMOR; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDITY; WELLBEING;

EID: 84985905874     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.08.042     Document Type: Article

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