Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Humour as a moderator of stress and defence based coping mechanisms among the youth of Kerala, India Subject The topic of the resource Adaptive humour; Defence based coping mechanisms; India; Kerala; Maladaptive humour stress; Youth Description An account of the resource The goal of this study was to examine the effect of the moderators of adaptive and maladaptive humour on stress and on the four levels of defence based coping mechanism amongst the youth of Kerala, India. Four hundred and fifty-three youth between the age of 18 and 40, selected from two different cities of North Kerala, India (Calicut, Malappuram) and Central Kerala, India (Cochin, Trissur), were asked to fill out three questionnaires assessing stress, coping and humour. Pearson's test of product-moment correlation indicated that stress had a positive and moderate statistically significant correlation with the first three levels of defence based coping mechanism (pathological defences, immature defences and neurotic defences). Furthermore, there was a positive and weak statistically significant correlation between stress and level-IV coping (mature defences). When positive and moderate correlation was found for stress with maladaptive humour, no significant correlation was found with adaptive humour. When coping was studied in relationship with humour, a negative and weak statistically significant correlation was found for level-I coping (pathological defences) with adaptive humour, whereas a positive and moderate statistically significant correlation was found with maladaptive humour. Here level-IV coping (mature defences) was found to have a positive and moderate statistically significant relationship with adaptive and maladaptive humour. Moderator analysis showed that maladaptive humour moderated the association between stress and four levels of defence based coping mechanism. The study implied that youth should be trained to use more of mature means of coping and adaptive humour styles in life. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George R.; Baby Shari P.A. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol-28, No. 4, pp. 2547-2565. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Universiti Putra Malaysia Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.47836/PJSSH.28.4.04" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.47836/PJSSH.28.4.04</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85099686094&amp;doi=10.47836%2FPJSSH.28.4.04&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=87aab62e7c37da0ec9d1a131587ab728" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85099686094&amp;doi=10.47836%2fPJSSH.28.4.04&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=87aab62e7c37da0ec9d1a131587ab728</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Open Access; Hybrid Gold Open Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 1287702 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant George R., Centre for Advanced Research and Training [CART], CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, Karnataka, 560029, India; Baby Shari P.A., Department of Psychology, University of Calicut, Kerala, 673635, India