The predictive ability of humor styles of psychological well-being among universities students

The study aims to reveal the predictive ability of humor styles of psychological well-being among universities students ,the study sample consisted of "750" students , (225) males and (525) females, they were chosen by available sampling of technique students were enrolled in second and summer semesters for the academic year (2018\2019), To achieve the aims of the study; the humor styles scale developed by martin and his colleagues (2003), and the psychological well-being scale developed by Ryff and Keyes (1995) were used. The results indicated astafistically significant differences in humor styles attributed to sex ,in favor of females in the style of affiliative humor and humor self- enhancing in favor of males with aggressive humor and self-defeating humor styles ,moreover the results showed that the level of psychological well-being for universitites students was average on the total scale, also the results do not reveal statistically significance differences (α = 0.05) on the level of psychological well-being for universities students attributed to sex, Moreover, the results of the study indicated that the styles of affiliative humor, self-defeating humor and aggressive humor predictive ability in the level of psychological well-being for males it was (28.2%) of total contrast, while it was for all humor styles predictive ability of psychological well-being in females it was (25%) of total contrast.