SELF-COMPASSION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AS THEPREDICTORS OF HUMOUR AMONG CORPORATE EMPLOYEES: A GENDER BASED STUDY

Humour plays a significant role in enhancing daily life, helping individuals cope with challenges and positively influencing relationships, work, and education.The present investigation aims to study self-compassion and psychological well-being as predictors of humour among corporate employees. The study focused on gender-based analysis. The total 116 corporate employees data was collected, out of which 60 were females and 56 were males. Three standardized scales were used to in the study: Self-Compassion Scale(SCS) (Neff, K. D.,2003),Psychological well being(Li,R.H.,2014), MultidimensionalSense of HomorScale (MSHS) (Thorson, J., 2007). Dimensions of self-compassion and psychological well-being were studied independently as predictors.Descriptive statistics, Pearson sproduct moment correlation and stepwise multiple regression analysis was used to analyse the data. Results of the study revealed that self-kindness, common humanity, self-judgement, and mindfulness emerged as predictors in females on the other hand, personal growth emerged as predictor in males. Furthermore, common humanity and self-judgement emerged as predictors in overall sample. Hence, the findings suggests that females focus on self-kindness, common humanity, self-judgement, and mindfulness whereas, males only focused on their personal growth with respect to humour in work culture.Additionally, common humanity and self-judgement are the main factors which predicts humour among corporate employees.