Examining the humor styles and positive aging in older adults and the role of cognitive functioning
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The current study examines how humor use may relate to positive aging in older adults. In \nparticular, it is proposed that the four different humor styles (self-enhancing, affiliative, selfdefeating, and aggressive humor) may be differentially associated with positive aging. The \ncurrent study also suggests that level of cognitive functioning may play a role in this relationship. \nAccordingly, it is proposed that older adults with intact cognitive functioning will use more \npositive styles of humor and experience more positive aging than those with impaired cognitive \nfunctioning. Twenty-four older adults from Northern Ontario communities completed self-report \nmeasures pertaining to the four humor styles, positive aging, and self-esteem, as well as \ncompleted a brief assessment of cognitive functioning. Significant differences were found \nbetween intact and impaired cognitive functioning older adults on use of self-defeating humor. \nAdditional exploratory analyses are further discussed. Limitations of the current study and \nfuture directions are considered.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".