Emotional Intelligence, Humor Styles and Mental Health Among University Students

Abstract

The current study was aimed to find out the relationship among emotional intelligence, humor styles and mental health among university students. The sample of this study consisted of 300 university students comprising of 150 males and 150 females with an age varying from 18 to 35 years. The tools used to gather data were Schutte Self Report of Emotional Intelligence, Humor Styles Questionnaire and Mental Health Inventory – 18.  Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20 was used to assess the data. Emotional intelligence and humor styles played a predictive role for mental health. Emotional intelligence and adaptive humor styles positively predicts psychological well-being whereas maladaptive humor style and emotional intelligence tend to negatively predicts psychological distress. Adaptive humor style played a positive role of a moderator between emotional intelligence and psychological well-being. And maladaptive humor style negatively moderated the effect between emotional intelligence and psychological distress.