The Situational Humor Response Questionnaire (SHRQ) and Coping Humor Scale (CHS): A decade of research findings

Stressful life events, personality, and health: An inquiry into hardiness.

1979 • 3,058 citations

Stressful Life Events: Their Nature and Effects.

1976 • 1,427 citations

Live Events, Stress, and Illness

1976 • 1,325 citations

Sense of humor as a moderator of the relation between stressors and moods.

1983 • 625 citations

An S-R inventory of anxiousness.

1962 • 433 citations

Life stress, depression and anxiety: Internal- external control as a moderator variable

1978 • 373 citations

Positive Emotional States and Enhancement of the Immune System

1986 • 297 citations

Situational Humor Response Questionnaire: Quantitative measure of sense of humor.

1984 • 262 citations

Humor and Life Stress: Antidote to Adversity

2011 • 261 citations

Coping humour, stress, and cognitive appraisals.

1993 • 258 citations

Life Stress and Illness

1974 • 201 citations

Sense of Humor, Hassles, and Immunoglobulin A: Evidence for a Stress-Moderating Effect of Humor

1989 • 185 citations

Sense of humor as a moderator of the relation between stressful events and psychological distress: A prospective analysis.

1988 • 181 citations

Sense of humor when coping with life stress

1992 • 145 citations

Benefits of Humor in Reduction of Threat-Induced Anxiety

1990 • 136 citations

Will the real relationship between facial expression and affective experience please stand up: The case of exhilaration

1995 • 131 citations

Locus of control as a modifier of the relationship between stressors and moods.

1981 • 125 citations

Assessment of appreciation of humor: Studies with the 3 WD humor test

1992 • 101 citations

Life change, the sensation seeking motive, and psychological distress.

1978 • 101 citations

Does sense of humor moderate the impact of life stress on psychological and physical well-being?

1987 • 95 citations

Humor and self-concept

1993 • 88 citations

A multi-method approach to the assessment of humor: A critical look at humor tests

1974 • 79 citations

Sense of humour and enhanced quality of life

1992 • 68 citations

Measurement of Sense of Humor

1991 • 66 citations

Extraversion and emotionality as proposed superordinate stress moderators: A prospective analysis

1994 • 50 citations

Humor and pain tolerance

1993 • 46 citations

Relation between Intimacy and Humor

1992 • 44 citations

Psychological Factors, Immunocompetence, and Health of Breast-Feeding Mothers and Their Infants

1989 • 44 citations

Do extraverts ‚like to laugh’︁?: An analysis of the Situational Humor Response Questionnaire (SHRQ)

1993 • 42 citations

Correlation between Humorous Coping Style and Health

1992 • 39 citations

Effects of Humorous Stimuli and Sense of Humor on Discomfort

1991 • 38 citations

Sensation seeking and the situational humour response questionnaire (SHRQ): its relationship in American and German samples

1992 • 21 citations

Joking under the drill: A validity study of the Coping Humor Scale.

1986 • 17 citations