The study aims to determine if mindfulness and the Fifth Factor of personality traits significantly predict humour styles. The participants of the study were a total of 502 undergraduate students, 300 (59.8%) female and 202 (40.2%) male. Humour Styles Questionnaire (HSQ), Adjective Based Personality Test (ABPT) and The Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) were used in order to collect the data of the study. Pearson’s Product Moments correlation technique and multiple regression analysis were employed for the statistical analysis. The findings of the study show that mindfulness and the Fifth Factor of personality traits significantly predict the sub-dimensions of humour styles.
The goal of the current study was to explore the possible effect of a short mindfulness meditation on decreasing a tendency for miserly processing and degree of myside bias. The author ś sample consisted of 76 students that were assigned into three groups: one with short mindfulness intervention and two control groups (one was given a lecture on cognitive biases and second group was given mind-wandering instruction). The groups did not significantly differ in any of the measured variables (with one minor exception). The results indicate that short-term mindfulness induction was unsuccessful in changing the proclivity for cognitive biases, contrary to what the author predicted.
There is some evidence that individual characteristics like Type A and high reactivity can be risk factors of alleviated stress. The aim of the first, longitudinal study was to predict perceived job stressors in a sample of 126 managers depending on Type A and reactivity level. The results showed that reactivity, not Type A, was a direct, positive predictor of perceived job stressors. The interaction of Type A and reactivity was marginally significant in predicting occupational stressors. High reactive Type A workers perceived higher level of job stressors than low reactive Type As. In the second, experimental study the changes in perceptions of job stressors due to mindfulness-based cognitive stress management intervention were examined in 150 managers matched by reactivity level (high or low) and Type A/B. In the experimental group, which participated in the intervention, the perceived level of job stressors decreased significantly in comparison with the control group, which did not take part in the intervention. Additionally, it was showed that the greatest decrease occurred in the group of high reactive workers who participated in the intervention. The role of Type A, reactivity and their interaction in predicting and managing occupational stress is discussed.
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