Bienestar subjetivo, sentido del humor y sentimiento de culpa en personas mayores

En los últimos veinte años se ha generado un interés especial por la investigación relacionada con el envejecimiento. Esto se debe en gran medida al aumento de la expectativa de vida de la población, especialmente en los países más desarrollados. Sugiriendo así la necesidad de obtener conocimientos sobre la calidad de vida de las personas mayores. Este trabajo de investigación de diseño no experimental descriptivo analítico intenta contribuir al campo de la investigación aportando datos empíricos asociados al fenómeno del envejecimiento y ofrecer información que pueda servir de instrumento de debate en el contexto de las intervenciones y atenciones socio-sanitarias en el campo de la gerontología. El objetivo principal de este trabajo es analizar el bienestar subjetivo de las personas mayores y determinar si la presencia de sentido del humor y el sentimiento de culpa influyen en el mismo. Para ello se recogieron de forma sistemática y por medio de cuestionarios estandarizados los criterios considerados en seis centros de día para personas mayores del centro de Madrid. En un principio participaron, anónima y voluntariamente, un total de 420 personas, 99 hombres (23.6%) y 321 mujeres (76.4%) con edades comprendidas entre 60 y 92 años. Sin embargo, después de aplicar los criterios de exclusión la muestra quedó en 378 personas, 92 hombres (24.3%) y 286 mujeres (75.7%)...

The Use of Humor in Therapy : Research-Based Training Recommendations

Despite its essential and universal nature, humor has historically received limited attention from the behavioral sciences, particularly as compared to other affective experiences like anger and sadness. Some authors (e.g., Bell & Malhi, 2009; Provine, 2000a; Roeckelein, 2002) suggest that this is because researchers have traditionally failed to "take humor seriously" and, according to O'Connell (cited in Roeckelein, 2002), have too often pursued its study in a piecemeal manner lacking scientific rigor, resulting in "no comprehensive network of facts about the development and purposes of humor in human existence" (p. 1). Roeckelein (2002) found not a single mention of humor, laughter, wit, comedy, or theories relating to these topics in introductory psychology textbooks published between 1930 and 1996.While research interest in the area has grown, especially over the last decade, it remains an elusive and nebulous topic, more likely to be examined in specialty psychology texts (e.g., social psychology and child development) than general ones (Martin, 2007; Roeckelein, 2002). Organizations (e.g., The International Society for Humor Studies; The Association for the Advancement of Therapeutic Humor), journals (e.g., Humor: International Journal of Humor Research) and internet phenomena such as "The Humor Project" (www.humorproiect.com) have made great strides in integrating information about humor from discreet fields such as the arts and humanities, biological and social sciences, education, and business management. Still, the therapeutic potential of humor remains a relatively young subject of serious scientific inquiry (Marci, Moran, & Orr, 2004; Sala, Krupat, & Roter, 2002). While humor does make appearances in self-help books and publications addressing clinical applications, these sources are much ...

Translating and Subtitling Humor Through Theory and Practice

This project assesses translating and subtitling humor in Italian and Spanish language films subtitled into English. Humor in film is problematic to translate when subtitling: visual humor may need no assistance to be delivered to a target audience, but verbal humor requires thorough analysis to be constructed effectively in the target language. To keep humor alive in target language translations, translators must understand the structure and function of humor. This project researches humor theory, translation and subtitling. It analyzes humor function through humor theory and applies this knowledge to translating audiovisual mediums. An understanding of joke structure and humor function can serve as a guide for translators to recognize, devise and evaluate equivalent translations of humor in film.