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In this study, we measure psychological suffering and emotional coping using humour among a sample of adult people during Italian lockdown to contain SARS-CoV-2 virus during 2020. We hypothesize that humour is a protective factor against a depressive state development, with the exception of some kind of humour style as aggressive or self-defeating. We revealed important psychopathology levels among subjects, the humour, more precisely self-enhancing one, is a protective factor against most psychopathological disorder, while there we did not find a significant correlation with depression and other humour scales, finding correlation with other humour styles and hostility, paranoia, and psichoticism scales.