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Humor Styles

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Online Article: Understanding humor styles and well-being: The importance of social relationships and gender'

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886913000688

Do others judge my humor style as I do Self-other agreement and construct validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire

S&T ARTICLE : Heintz, S. (2019). Do others judge my humor style as I do?: Self-other agreement and construct validity of the humor styles questionnaire. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 35(5), 625-632. doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000440

Retrived from S&T Library: Willibald Ruch and Sonja Heintz: Experimentally Manipulating Items Informs on the (Limited) Construct and Criterion Validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00616/full

~The German Version of the Humor Styles Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties and Overlap With Other Styles of Humor https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4991050/

Humor styles and personality: A meta‐analysis of the relation between humor styles and the Big Five personality traits https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4991050/

~“A joke a day keeps the doctor away?” Meta‐analytical evidence of differential associations of habitual humor styles with mental health. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology Volume 59 Issue 3

~Situational Humor Response Questionnaire: Quantitative Measure of Sense of Humor by Rod A. Martin and Herbert M. Lefcourt Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1984. Vol 47. No I. 145-15

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232603288_Situational_Humor_Response_Questionnaire_Quantitative_measure_of_sense_of_humor

~A comparison of humor styles, coping humor, and mental health between Chinese and Canadian university students https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/humr/20/3/article-p215.xml

~Humor The Psychology of Living Buoyantly https://academic.csuohio.edu/neuendorf_ka/chs.pdf

~The Situational Humor Response Questionnaire (SHRQ) and Coping Humor Scale (CHS): A Decade of Research Findings https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rod_Martin/publication/249929109_The_Situational_Humor_Response_Questionnaire_SHRQ_and_Coping_Humor_Scale_CHS_A_decade_of_research_findings/links/00b4952dd81bd26785000000/The-Situational-Humor-Response-Questionnaire-SHRQ-and-Coping-Humor-Scale-CHS-A-decade-of-research-findings.pdf

~The Sense of Humor Questionnaire: Conceptualization and review of 40 years of findings in empirical research by Sven Svebak Europe’s Journal of Psychology 3/2010, pp. 288-310 www.ejop.org

~The Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale by James A. Thorson and F. C. Powell Journal of Clinical Psychology. Jan 1993, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p13-23

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*** FROM https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4991050/

''When the HSQ is given in the original language, the test for internal consistencies was an alpha over 0.77 for all items. However, when translated, the internal consistency alpha varied from .55 (aggressive) to .89 (self-enhancing) in one study, Taher et al. (2008), and from .67 (self-defeating) to .78 (self-enhancing) in another study, Bilge and Saltuk (2007). While most of the styles tested reasonably well, the aggressive humor scale produced the lowest internal consistency values''. ~

*** FROM "A joke a day keeps the doctor away"

''There are other humor scale surveys that are used to measure different aspects of humor such as: The Situational Humor Response Questionnaire, The Coping Humor Scale, The Sense of Humor Questionnaire, and The Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale. However, these surveys don't take into calculation the way humor is used in everyday situations like the Humor Styles Questionnaire does.'' ~

FROM https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00616/full

A study from the University of Zurich, located in Zurich, Switzerland, rewrote the original 32 HSQ items to focus on the humor relevance or the context relevance. These two surveys were named the Humor-HSQ and the No-Humor-HSQ. An data was collected via an online survey that had participants do the No-Humor-HSQ, then the Humor-HSQ, and lastly the original HSQ.

*** FROM Situational Humor Response Questionnaire:

''The Situational Humor Response Questionnaire was created by Martin and Lefcourt in 1984. It is based on Eysenck's definition of humor and is a survey composed of 18 different situations that are on a scale from everyday events to events that are anxiety inducing and 3 non-situational items. The three non-situational items are: how desirable it is to the participant to have friends that are easily amused, how much a participants' humor changes depending on the situation, and a self-rating question about how likely the participant is to laugh in different situations. In regards to the Situational Humor Response Questionnaire, humor is defined as how often and individual smiles, laughs, or shows amusement but ignores the type of humor used. The responses to the survey are on a 1-5 scale, I would not have been particularly amused (1) to I would have laughed heartily (5). The Situational Humor Response Questionnaire was tested on almost 500 participants in four groups and has alpha coefficients from .70 to .83. Of the participants, 33 were tested again a month later to examine the test-retest reliability which has an alpha of 0.70. The Situational Humor Response Questionnaire was compared to the Crowne-Marlowe (1960) Social Desirability Scale but had only .04 correlation meaning the Situational Humor Response Questionnaire is free from the bias of social desirability.''

*** FROM comparison of humor styles and Humor The Psychology of Living Buoyantly and Decade of Research Findings

''The Coping Humor Scale was created by Martin and Lefcourt in 1983. The Coping Humor Scale is a survey of 7 items that assesses how much participants use humor to cope with stress. The responses on the survey are on a 1-4 scale, strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (4). The alphas range from .60 to .70 and the test-retest reliability of 12 weeks alpha is .80. While the Coping Humor Scale doesn't have as high of an internal consistency as the Situational Humor Response Questionnaire, it is unique in the "self-observer agreement." The way participants rate themselves is strongly correlated with how their friends rate them on similar content.''

***FROM Sense of Humor Questionnaire

''The Sense of Humor Questionnaire was proposed by Sven Svebak in 1974. The original Sense of Humor Questionnaire was 22 items broken into three categories that could be answered on a scale of 1-4. The three categories are: M-items (reactive to humor and implicit messages), L-items (attitude towards humorous people and situations), E-items (openness to expression of amusement). An example of each type of item is: when I go to the movies I prefer to know ahead what type of story it is (M-item), fun is aimed at hurting another (L-item), do you ever laugh so hard it hurts? (E-item). M-items and L-items use the same scale prompts, 1 = total agreement, 4 = total disagreement, whereas E-items use 1 = very seldom, 4 = very often. However the some of the items could overlap and fit into another group of items but despite the dimensionality problem, the scores correlated moderately positively to each other (r = .29 to .38). The Sense of Humor Questionnaire was revised and included items on each sub-scale that evaluate more in-depth of each group. The revised version of the Sense of Humor Questionnaire M and L-items have strong internal consistency (.60’s and .70’s) but E-items have poor internal consistency. Due to poor internal consistency, E-items were not used in further studies, but M-items were used for the Situation Humor Response and L-items were used for the Humor Coping Scale.''

*** FROM Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale

''The Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale was created by James A. Thorson and F. C. Powell in 1991 and combines elements from the Situational Humor Response Questionnaire, the Coping Humor Scale, and the Sense of Humor Questionnaire. It was created to assess the different elements of sense humor such as playfulness, humorous ability, recognition and appreciation of humor, and using humor to achieve social goals or as a coping mechanism. The Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale is composed of 124 statements with responses on a scale of 1-5. 1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree. The 124 statements were reduced to 29 with an alpha reliability of .92. The remaining statements are broken into four factors. Factor 1 combines humor production humor for social uses, Factor 2 combines coping humor and adaptive humor, Factor 3 evaluates humor appreciation, and Factor 4 evaluates the participants attitude on humor. Some examples of statements on the Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale respective to the factors are: I use humor to entertain my friends, uses of humor help me master difficult situations, I like a good joke, and people who tell jokes are a pain in the neck.''

Peer Review

I think that so far you have lots of good information added! I like that it seems that you are focused on the HSQ because when I was reading the Wiki article it was a little confusing to me and I thought that it could be explained better. A suggestion I have is that after you say "However these surveys don't take into calculation the way humor is used in every day situations like the Humor Styles Questionnaire does" give an example of how the HSQ does this. Also from that same source there are three other surveys named; you could talk about them more in separate sections. I think that the 3 sources used look good. Skwwtr (talk) 19:33, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Peer Review P2
I like how your "begin draft" section addresses one of the most prominent issues mentioned in the original article: the translation error. Your sources, which continue to be from a variety of cultures (which seems like a great way to tackle the "unbiased" requirement), may make for an interesting additional perspective. From the "A joke a day..." evidence, will you elaborate further? I think it would be invaluable to address how/why other psychologists/scientists have attempted to study humor. As an additional note on perspective taking, I don't know if the information is available to you/us, but if there are other perspectives (cognitive-behavioral, psychoanalytical, developmental, etc.) worth mentioning, it may add to the already solid discussion of the Big 5 and related personality topics...? It looks like you'll add a valuable and interesting contribution! Username