The Study of Relationship Between Sense of Humor and General Health in Students

AbstractBackground: the subject of humor in the ancient days of life and social relations is there and it seems that since the size of human social life has existed a kind of joking communication tool between individuals and groups can have beliefs and deep emotions and feelings tendencies of individuals subject to various specified.Purpose of Study: This study investigated the relationship between humor and general healths are among the students.Methods: is descriptive and correlational study sample of 100 male students in high school is Babylon, which randomly selected for data collection from two general health questionnaire humor to analyze the descriptive and inferential methods SPSS software was used.Results: The results show that the scale factor humor mental health symptoms including physical symptoms of anxiety and depressive symptoms humor above, the symptoms decreased and vice versa, and the scale is increased social function social function could be a result your sense of humor as one of the factors effective in reducing psychological symptoms such as anxiety and depression and decrease in physical symptoms and social functioning also increased in all hypotheses was emphasized.Conclusions: It can be concluded that with the personal agent (humor) in the limit is reasonable and acceptable to society in terms of mental and physical limits and reasonable in terms of daily function, social function and a high level is what the operating result up sense of humor against the decrease of the above symptoms and social function are increased