Self-Compassion, Humor Styles and Flourishing Among Teachers

Abstract

Teacher’s has a vital role in shaping the coming generations, their well-being is an important area of research, which can benefit them to work efficiently and be productive in their work. This research investigated the relationship between self-compassion, humor styles and flourishing among teachers. A total of 268 participants of different ages (between 20-70) were recruited. The results demonstrated positive relationship between self-compassion, adaptive humor styles (affiliative, self-enhancing) and flourishing whereas, negative relationship between maladaptive humor styles (aggressive, self-defeating) and flourishing. Further, results stated that self-compassion and adaptive humor styles (self-enhancing) significantly positively predicts flourishing but affiliative humor is non-significant predictor of flourishing, whereas, maladaptive humor (aggressive, self-defeating) significantly negatively predicted flourishing. Moreover, results revealed no significant differences in levels of self-compassion, humor styles and flourishing among men and women.