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Glòria Grases Colom, Cristina Trías Alcover, Cristian Sánchez Curto, Juan Zárate-Osuna
The purpose of this study was to increase positive humour as a strategy for reducing participants' levels of anxiety. To this end, 31 volunteer students were selected and given a test of perceptual speed to generate stress response (anxiety).
Subsequently, participants were exposed to a comedy video of about 25 minutes' duration (made specifically for this study).
State-anxiety levels were assessed three times: at the beginning of the study (baseline), after the perceptual speed test and after watching the humorous video. Personality variables and level of dispositional optimism were also measured. The results indicate a statistically significant decrease in state-anxiety levels after viewing the comedy video. We also found that those participants with higher levels of dispositional optimism had lower levels of state-anxiety after viewing the comedy video, and scored lower on neuroticism and higher on extraversion. Statistically significant positive correlations were also found between neuroticism and state-anxiety. Furthermore, the results indicate that those with higher levels of anxiety at baseline were not those with the poorest performance on the perceptual speed test.
The purpose of this study was to increase positive humour as a strategy for reducing participants' levels of anxiety. To this end, 31 volunteer students were selected and given a test of perceptual speed to generate stress response (anxiety). Subsequently, participants were exposed to a comedy video of about 25 minutes' duration (made specifically for this study). State-anxiety levels were assessed three times: at the beginning of the study (baseline), after the perceptual speed test and after watching the humorous video. Personality variables and level of dispositional optimism were also measured. The results indicate a statistically significant decrease in state-anxiety levels after viewing the comedy video. We also found that those participants with higher levels of dispositional optimism had lower levels of state-anxiety after viewing the comedy video, and scored lower on neuroticism and higher on extraversion. Statistically significant positive correlations were also found between neuroticism and state-anxiety. Furthermore, the results indicate that those with higher levels of anxiety at baseline were not those with the poorest performance on the perceptual speed test.
