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Miriam Leñero-Cirujano1, Mª Nieves Moro-Tejedor, Juan Ignacio Torres-González
1Author Affiliations: Department of Nursing (Dr Leñero-Cirujano), Autonóma University, Madrid Spain; Nursing Research Support Unit (Dr Moro-Tejedor), General University Hospital, Gregorio Marañón. Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain; Regional Office of Transplant Coordination Madrid's Community, Department of Nursing (Dr Torres-González), Hospital Universitario Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain; and Department of Psychology (Dr González-Ordi) and Department of Nursing (Dr Gómez-Higuera), Complutense University, Madrid, Spain.
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Using humor as a caregiving strategy can help professionals perceive daily and work-related events from a more optimistic and light-hearted perspective. The main objective of this study was to analyze humor styles among health care professionals. A cross-sectional and correlational design was employed. Data were collected using the Humor Styles Questionnaire, which measures four humor styles: affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating humor. Health care professionals scored higher in positive humor than negative humor. Age exhibited a negative correlation with positive humor. Significant differences were observed between marital status and affiliative and self-enhancing humor, professional category and hospital unit with aggressive humor, shift work and self-enhancing humor, and type of contract and experience with affiliative humor. Health care professionals employ various humor styles based on their social and work contexts. It is crucial for health care professionals to receive training in the use of positive humor to consciously avoid humor styles that can hinder well-being.
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