HUMOR STYLES AS PREDICTORS OF RESILIENCE IN YOUTH DURING WARTIME

Abstract

The article presents an empirical study in which the purpose was to study and explain the specifics of a particular style of humor in the perspective of indicators of resilience of Ukrainian youth (including gender), who have been in conditions of uncertainty caused by the war for a long time. Humor styles are able to determine the progress of resilience: its functional or dysfunctional vector. The outlined tasks of the work were achieved through the use of a set of methods: theoretical (analysis, systematization, comparison), empirical (questionnaire on humor styles by R. Martin (HSQ), method of diagnosing the level of resistance by K. Lappert, author's questionnaire), mathematical-statistical and methods-interpretation of the phenomena under study. 215 people joined the study on a voluntary and anonymous basis. The results of the presented study reflected the differentiated mediation of the level of resilience in young people with a certain style of humor, including men and women. The correlation analysis procedure (Spearman and Pearson criteria, respectively) recorded the following: Ukrainian youth has so far demonstrated the trajectory of prioritizing the choice of such humor styles as self-sustaining and affiliative. Self-sustaining – first of all, it became an indicator of a high level of their resilience, affiliative – medium, but self-deprecating – low. At the same time, during the war, males showed significant resonance and attention, first of all, to a self-sufficient mechanism of resilience without an urgent need for affiliation, while women – on the contrary, an external reference point in the search for support, which reinforces their resilience. The aggressive style in general in the presented intelligence did not prove itself, which created a precedent for the study of its role in other groups of young people (including the military).