Humor has an important role in the human interactions. The result of the humor is the happiness which is a necessity for the human soul. Therefore, in this article, we address the study of the reaction of the Holy Prophet, Mohammad, (puh) and the Imams (as), which is very important. The Hadiths related to this subject are divided to two categories: Negative and Positive. In this article, we cover the following subjects. Firstly, we define the humor. Then, we collect and categorize the Hadiths about this topic. Then, we discuss the forms of occurrence of humors in the words of the Infallible Imams (AS), and the goals they followed from humor. We try to provide a proper explanation for these issues by collecting data in a library method and literary analysis of that data.

Background: Nursing is considered as a cumbersome and stressful profession. Nurses play a pivotal role in patient care and there are experience considerable emotional distress leading to irritability, depression, somatic disorder, sleep disorders and burnout. In attention to the importance of investigating effective to increase nurses’ well-being and to improve nurse-patient relationship, in the current research, with interview of humor history in nurse-patient relationship, has been paid to humor advantages in health field. Thus, the current research has been done to investigate the role of humor in improving nurse-patient relationship.Material & Methods: Data bases of Science direct, Oxford journal, Springer, Sage, Taylor & Francis and Google scholar were searched to retrieve the related literature. The main criteria for entry were, the literature published in English language in the disciplines of nursing and health care sciences. Literature search was limited to 1980-2013 with the keywords of "Nursing", "nurse-patient relationship", "humor" and "hospital" in the title of texts that due to it, 84 texts were reconsidered and were reviewed.Results: the results of this study indicate that humor have important role in improving nurse-patient relationship. Humor help to nurses to cope with cumbersome positions, provide a sense of cohesion between nurses and patients and can be used as a therapeutic technique to reduced pression and anxiety of patients. It can ultimately affect nurses’ efficiency and perceived safety by patient.Conclusion: the results of this study indicate the importance of humor in improving nurse-patient relationships, and the necessity of attention to this component in training nurses as major members of medical care team.

Introduction: Concerning the importance of examining the determinants and effective variables in psychological well-being, this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between adaptive and maladaptive humor style with psychological well-being among nurses.Methods: This descriptive- correlation study was conducted on 190 nursing students (78 males and 112 females) from nursing students of Tehran Universities in 2009. All participants were randomly selected and asked to complete the humor styles questionnaire (HSQ; Martin et al., 2003) and Ryff’s Psychological Wellbeing Scales (Ryff & Keyes., 1995). Collectes data was analyzed using Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient and regression analysis with SPSS 18.Results: Results of this study showed that adaptive and maladaptive aspects of humor styles had significant positive and negative correlation with psychological well-being, respectively.The results of regression analysis revealed that aspects of psychological well-being were predictable by adaptive and maladaptive humor styles.Conclusion: According to findings relationship between adaptive and maladaptive humor style with psychological well-being among nurses, could help nurses toward protecting and promoting mental health. Adaptive and maladaptive humor styles knowledge can play a significant role in predicting psychological well-being among nurses.