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KMID : 0367020100220040418
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Journal of Korean Academic of Adult Nursing
2010 Volume.22 No. 4 p.418 ~ p.429
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The Relationship between Sense of Humor, Coping with Humor, Perceived Stress and Self-esteem in the Middle-aged Women
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Park Mi-Sung
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was performed to identify the relationship between Sense of Humor, Coping Humor, Perceived stress and self-esteem in the middle-aged women.
Methods: Data were collected from the 20th of June to the 30th of August in 2009 from 145 middle-aged women living in Seoul. Data analysis was done with SPSS/WIN 12.0 program for descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation.
Results: The mean score of the humor sense was 55.94±6.52, coping humor was 21.11±3.82, perceived stress was 22.21±3.03 and self-esteem was 27.50±2.88. Subcategories of sense of humor were that emotional expressiveness was average 20.75±2.70, meta-message sensitivity was average 20.12±2.74 and liking of humor was average 15.13±3.44. Sense of humor was difference according to the economic status(t=2.000, p=.047), coping humor was difference according to the on medication use(t=2.227, p=.027). There was a significant correlation between the coping humor, perceived stress and the self-esteem. When the coping humor was higher, perceived stress was lower and the self-esteem was higher.
Conclusion: This study showed that medication and economic status influences the humor scores and the sense of humor and coping humor were related to perceived stress and self-esteem in middle-aged women Therefore, these findings can provide the basis for the development of nursing intervention to increase the ability to coping with stress.
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KEYWORD
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Middle-aged women, Humor, Perceived stress, Self-esteem
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