The understanding of the phenomenon of "sense of humor", in particular workers with professional deformations (burning out), is deepened. A comparative analysis of professional deformations (burnout), sense of humor and humor styles of workers without professional deformations (emotional, physical and psychoemotional exhaustion, depersonalization as a component of professional deformations and personal distancing, reduction of personal achievements, reduced professional motivation) is carried out. Workers with professional deformations have an average level of sense of humor with a tendency to increase, due to high psychoemotional exhaustion, high emotional exhaustion, high professional deformation (burnout), high reduction of personal achievements, high reduction of professional motivation, higher average depersonalization, higher average personal distance; and also features of sense of humor are revealed: high level of aggressive and self-deprecating styles of humor, lower than average level of self-sustaining style of humor and low level of affiliation style of humor. Attention is focused on the need for psychological prevention and psychological correction of aggressive and self-deprecating styles of humor as a means of psychological protection when experiencing the presence of professional deformations (burnout).
