The mediating role of gender in adolescents' psychological resilience, emotion regulation skills, and humor styles

Abstract

In this study, the relationship between psychological resilience and emotion regulation skills in adolescents was examined, and the impact of humor skills on these factors was revealed. The findings explain which factors affect an individual's psychological resilience and emotion regulation skills; additionally, these findings demonstrate that humor styles have an impact on psychological resilience and emotion regulation. The study was conducted with adolescent students aged 13-14 attending public and private schools. To obtain data, a demographic information form, the Child and Youth Psychological Resilience Scale, the Humor Styles Questionnaire for Children, and the Emotion Regulation Scale for Adolescents were used. For normality of research variables, skewness and kurtosis values were calculated, and to observe differences between variables, t-tests and one-way ANOVA were applied. Tukey HSD was used to identify the source of the differences, and Pearson correlation was used to examine relationships between variables. The literature review indicates that emotion regulation skills in adolescents are also related to humor skills. In our study, it was found that male students scored significantly higher in the contextual-cultural dimension, a sub-dimension of psychological resilience. For emotion regulation skills, the internal dysfunctional emotion regulation dimension was found to be higher in female students. Male students scored significantly higher in affiliative and aggressive humor styles compared to female students. Significant positive relationships were found between emotion regulation and psychological resilience, and it was observed that functional emotion regulation skills have a positive effect on psychological resilience. Finally, self-enhancing humor style was found to play a mediating role in the relationship between psychological resilience and emotion regulation skills. The question of whether there is a relationship between psychological resilience and emotion regulation, as well as the unknown impact of humor styles on these factors, highlights the importance of researching these concepts.