L. Joan Olinger

TL;DR: For example, this paper found that greater levels of humor are associated with a more positive self-concept when considered in terms of actualideal discrepancies, self-esteem, and Standards for self-worth evaluation.

TL;DR: The Dysfunctional Attitude Scale-Form A (DAS-A) was completed by 664 university students and the results were factor-analyzed. Approximately 61% of the variance was accounted for by two factors, labelled Performance Evaluation and Approval by Others as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the relationship between sense of humour and cognitive appraisals and reappraisals of a potentially stressful event and found that high humour subjects' ratings of importance and positive challenge were positively related to performance on the exam, whereas for low humour subjects this relationship was negative.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed that depressive symptomatology results from the interaction of an individual's dysfunctional attitudes with stressful life events that impinge on those attitudes, and found that individuals with high DAS scores displayed increased levels of perceived stress.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the nature of self-referent information processing in individuals cognitively vulnerable for depression, but currently nondepressed, and found that nonvulnerable nondepressives exhibited the greatest incidental recall for non-depressed-content adjectives receiving a prior selfreferent judgment, consistent with predictions generated from a content-specific self-schema model.