The investigation of emotion management skills and psychological well-beings of school psychological counselors with regard to humour styles, which they use

The objective of this study is to examine the emotion management skills and psychological well-beings of school psychological counselors with regard to their humour styles that they use. The study is a relational scanning model and the participants are composed of 150 school psychological counselors (guidance teachers) who work in different educational institutions in Karabük and Bolu. Personal Information Form prepared by the researcher, Humour Styles Questionnaire (Yerlikaya, 2003), Emotion Management Ability Scale (Çeçen, 2006) and Psychological Well-Being Scale Short Form-42 (Akın, 2008)" were used to obtain the data. T test, ANOVA, Pearson Correlation Coefficient, Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk which is used for testing of independent t-test assumptions, descriptive statistics, Levene test which is used for controlling of ANOVA assumptions and Bonferroni test which is one of post-hoc tests were used in data analysis of the research. Results of the study showed that, school psychological counselors had self-enchancing humour and affiliative humour styles, which are healthy styles of humour. The study showed that the participants who have self enchanging humour style got significantly higher scores in being able to control the negative bodily reactions, which is one of the emotion control skills, than the participants who have affiliative humour style but there is no significant difference between emotional management skills and other subscales of humour styles. Scores of participants who have self enchanging humour style in environmental control and personal evolution which are psychological well-being subscales are significantly higher than the environmental control and personal evolution scores of participants who have affiliative humour style. However, there is no significant difference between the other psychological well-being subscales and other humour styles subscales.