Assessing the „humorous temperament“: Construction of the facet and standard trait forms of the State-Trait-Cheerfulness-Inventory — STCI

Ruch, Willibald; Köhler, Gabriele; Thriel, Christoph van

doi:10.1515/humr.1996.9.3-4.303

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“…Traditional Chinese people are reserved, serious and intrapersonal (Lin 1994), which does not indicate that they are in bad mood. Finally, in the Chinese context, there are no age differences in any of the trait and state scales, which is different from the results of Ruch et al (1996). The possible reason is due to the sample chosen.…”

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Temperamental basis of sense of humor: Validating the state-trait-cheerfulness-inventory in Mainland China

Chen

Ruch

2017

Humor

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This paper examined the reliability and validity of the State-Trait-Cheerfulness-Inventory (STCI) in Mainland China. The Chinese translation of the STCI-T<106i>, STCI-S<45i> and the Temporal Satisfaction with Life Scale (TSWLS) were administered to 476 university students (313 females, 157 males, 6 missing; 20.40 ± 1.35 years of age). Results showed that the STCI-T<106> and the STCI-S<45> had high Cronbach alphas ranging from 0.60 to 0.92 in Mainland China, and the factorial structures of the instruments were supported. The STCI-T<60> and STCI-S<30> were developed utilizing three criteria for the selection of items. Cronbach alphas were satisfactory ranging from 0.67 to 0.94. The factor structure of the items appeared to be highly generalizable in Mainland China. Joint factor analyses of the state and trait items yielded three factors (cheerfulness, seriousness and bad mood) both as traits and states with the homologous concepts positively correlated. As expected, cheerfulness correlated negatively with bad mood, and cheerfulness correlated negatively with state seriousness. Meanwhile, seriousness correlated positively with bad mood. Moreover, life satisfaction was related positively with cheerfulness and negatively with bad mood, and could be predicted by high cheerfulness and low bad mood. Applications of the STCI-T<60> and STCI-S<30> in the Chinese context and future research are discussed. Abstract: This paper examined the reliability and validity of the State-TraitCheerfulness-Inventory (STCI) in Mainland China. The Chinese translation of the STCI-T<106i>, STCI-S<45i> and the Temporal Satisfaction with Life Scale (TSWLS) were administered to 476 university students (313 females, 157 males, 6 missing; 20.40 ± 1.35 years of age). Results showed that the STCI-T<106> and the STCI-S<45> had high Cronbach alphas ranging from 0.60 to 0.92 in Mainland China, and the factorial structures of the instruments were supported. The STCI-T<60> and STCI-S<30> were developed utilizing three criteria for the selection of items. Cronbach alphas were satisfactory ranging from 0.67 to 0.94. The factor structure of the items appeared to be highly generalizable in Mainland China. Joint factor analyses of the state and trait items yielded three factors (cheerfulness, seriousness and bad mood) both as traits and states with the homologous concepts positively correlated. As expected, cheerfulness correlated negatively with bad mood, and cheerfulness correlated negatively with state seriousness. Meanwhile, seriousness correlated positively with bad mood. Moreover, life satisfaction was related positively with cheerfulness and negatively with bad mood, and could be predicted by high cheerfulness and low bad mood. Applications of the STCI-T<60> and STCI-S<30> in the Chinese context and future research are discussed.

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Temperamental basis of sense of humor: Validating the state-trait-cheerfulness-inventory in Mainland China

Chen

Ruch

2017

Humor

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“…Furthermore, bad mood (assessed with the STCI, Ruch et al, 1996) and especially the facet ill-humoredness (sullen, grumpy, grouchy feelings; Ruch et al, 1996) can be reasoned to go along with the expression of a negative attitude, hence making ironic criticisms more likely.…”

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Virgin soil in irony research: Personality, humor, and the “sense of irony”.

Bruntsch¹,

Hofmann²,

Ruch³

2016

Translational Issues in Psychological Science

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he aim of the paper is fourfold: (a) show why humor scholars should study irony, (b) explore the need for considering interindividual differences in healthy adults' irony performance, (c) stress the necessity for developing tools assessing habitual differences in irony performance, and (d) indicate future directions for joint irony and humor research and outline possible applications. Verbal irony is often employed with a benevolent humorous intent by speakers, but can also serve as a means of disparagement humor. In both cases, encoding and decoding activities entailing irony need to be considered in the context of the psychology of humor. We argue that verbal irony performance can be considered a phenomenon native to the realm of humor and individual differences. We point out that research has widely neglected the meaningfulness of variance in irony performance within experimental groups when looking at determinants of irony detection and production. Based on theoretical considerations and previous empirical findings we show that this variance can be easily related to individual-differences variables such as the sense of humor, dispositions toward laughter and ridicule (e.g., gelotophobia), and general mental ability. Furthermore, we hypothesize that there is an enduring trait determining irony performance we will label the sense of irony. The sense of irony possibly goes along with inclinations toward specific affective and cognitive processing patterns when dealing with verbal irony. As an application, novel irony performance tests can help to study psychological and neurophysiological correlates of irony performance more feasibly, that is, in nonclinical groups. The aim of the paper is fourfold: 1) show why humor scholars should study irony; 2) explore

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“…Since cycle-dependent fluctuations in mood can affect interhemispheric processes (Compton & Mintzer, 2001), the State-Trait-Cheerfulness-Inventory (STCI-S18; Ruch, Köhler, & van Thriel, 1996; was applied during each test session. The STCI-S18 is an instrument measuring the three concepts of cheerfulness, seriousness, and bad mood.…”

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Sex hormonal modulation of interhemispheric transfer time

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Assessing the „humorous temperament“: Construction of the facet and standard trait forms of the State-Trait-Cheerfulness-Inventory — STCI

Cited by 172 publications

References 8 publications

Temperamental basis of sense of humor: Validating the state-trait-cheerfulness-inventory in Mainland China

Temperamental basis of sense of humor: Validating the state-trait-cheerfulness-inventory in Mainland China

Virgin soil in irony research: Personality, humor, and the “sense of irony”.

Sex hormonal modulation of interhemispheric transfer time

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