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- Title
Humor in romantic relationships: A meta-analysis.
- Authors
HALL, JEFFREY A.
- Abstract
This manuscript reports a meta-analysis of the correlation between humor and relationship satisfaction in romantic relationships, combining 43 distinct samples from 39 manuscripts and including 15,177 participants (54.7% female) with a mean age of 34.0 years. Drawing from 3 theoretical dimensions of humor (i.e., within-person/relational, positive/negative, instrumental/content free), weighted mean effect sizes were estimated for 12 distinct subdimensions of humor. All 6 positive types of humor were positively associated with relationship satisfaction, and 4 of 5 negative types of humor were negatively associated with relationship satisfaction. Instrumental humor was unassociated with satisfaction. In support of the proposed relational dimension, self-reported humor showed small associations with satisfaction, while partner-perceived and relational humor showed medium and large effect sizes, respectively.
- Subjects
ROMANTIC love; AQUEOUS humor; MANUSCRIPTS; ROMANTIC friendship; META-analysis
- Publication
Personal Relationships, 2017, Vol 24, Issue 2, p306
- ISSN
1350-4126
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/pere.12183