The Mediating Role of Humor in the Relationship between BorderlinePersonality Disorder and Suicidal Tendencies in Public HospitalEmployees

 The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of humor in the relationship between the traits of borderline personality disorder and suicidal tendencies in public hospital employees of Lorestan province. This study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of data collection, which was conducted using structural equation model method. The statistical population of this study is made up of all the employees of the public hospitals of Lorestan province, using cluster random sampling, the number of 148 people was determined as a sample and according to Beck's suicide tendency questionnaire (1979). The borderline personality disorder subscale was answered based on the MCMI questionnaire and the humor questionnaire of Martin et al. (1981). The analysis of the hypotheses of this study was done by the method of structural equation modeling with SmartPLS software. Results showed that borderline personality disorder traits have a significant direct relationship with humor and suicidal tendencies. Also, the results of the final adjusted model showed that personality disorder traits with suicidal tendencies have an indirect effect with the mediating role of humor. The results of this study, by obtaining a suitable fit of the data with the model, showed that three conceptual frameworks, borderline personality disorder traits, suicidal tendencies and humor have theoretical intersection points in the hospital staff community. Are of Lorestan province and can be used in the form of a model and be taken into consideration in future planning.