Fig 1.
Laughing frequency moderating experienced stress.
Moderator effect (with 95% confidence interval) of extreme values for frequency of laughter (person-centered) regarding the prospective association between stressful event experienced at time T and the stress symptoms experienced (aggregated self-report in plot A, global self-report in plot B) at time T+1. Compare results in Tables 1 and 2, respectively.
Table 1.
Results hypothesis 1: Frequency of laughter as moderator of the association between experience of stressful events and experience of stress symptoms (combined measure).
Table 2.
Results hypothesis 1: Frequency of laughter as moderator of the association between experience of stressful events and experience of stress symptoms (global measure).
Table 3.
Results hypothesis 2: Intensity of laughter as moderator of the association between experience of stressful events and experience of stress symptoms (combined measure).
Table 4.
Results hypothesis 2: Intensity of laughter as moderator of the association between experience of stressful events and experience of stress symptoms (global measure).