Humor in intimate relationships:Ties among sense of humor, similarity in humor and relationship quality

The present study examined relations between different aspects of humor and relationship quality Participants 114 married or cohabiting heterosexual couples from the general community with a mean relationship length of 22 years completed a number of measures assessing these two themes We expected different aspects of humor of both partners to be positively related to relationship quality In addition we expected partners to resemble each other with regard to the different aspects of humor and similarity with regard to humor to be related positively to relationship quality The hypotheses were partially confirmed APIM analyses revealed only one significant actor and one significant partner effect of sense of humor Partners did resemble each other with regard to sense of humor but couple similarity with regard to sense of humor was unrelated to relationship quality