Class-based differences in the use of (aggressive) humor: The mediating role of empathic concern

Navarro‐Carrillo, Ginés; Torres‐Marín, Jorge; Carretero‐Dios, Hugo

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2020.109868

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“…Indeed, in this socioeconomic climate, class disparities and their detrimental wide-ranging consequences across distinct domains are more visible (Moya and Fiske, 2017). Although it could be argued that almost all people's psychological and social outcomes are largely influenced by their objective or perceived socioeconomic standing, ranging from food preferences (Baumann et al, 2019) and speech patterns (Kraus et al, 2019) to humorrelated dispositions (Navarro-Carrillo et al, 2020) and identity (Easterbrook et al, 2020), empirical research has mainly focused on investigating the connections between SES and psychological well-being and health-related aspects (e.g., Howell and Howell, 2008;Curhan et al, 2014;Präg et al, 2016;Huang et al, 2017).…”

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Socioeconomic Status and Psychological Well-Being: Revisiting the Role of Subjective Socioeconomic Status

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Socioeconomic status (SES) is a complex and multidimensional construct, encompassing both independent objective characteristics (e.g., income or education) and subjective people's ratings of their placement in the socioeconomic spectrum. Within the growing literature on subjective SES belongingness and psychological well-being, subjective indices of SES have tended to center on the use of pictorial rank-related social ladders where individuals place themselves relative to others by simultaneously considering their income, educational level, and occupation. This approach, albeit consistent with the idea of these social ladders as summative or cognitive SES markers, might potentially constrain individuals' conceptions of their SES. This research (N = 368; M age = 39.67, SD = 13.40) is intended to expand prior investigations on SES and psychological well-being by revisiting the role of subjective SES. In particular, it (a) proposes an innovative adaptation of the traditional MacArthur Scale of subjective SES to income, education, and occupation, thus resulting in three separate social ladders; and (b) tests the empirical contribution of such three social ladders to psychological well-being. Overall, our findings showed that the novel education and occupation ladders (excluding the income ladder) are predictive of a significant part of the variance levels of psychological well-being that is not due to canonical objective metrics of SES (i.e., income, education, and occupation), or to the conventional MacArthur Scale of subjective SES. Although preliminary, these results underscore the need to further reconsider (subjective) SES-related conceptualization and measurement strategies to gather a more comprehensive understanding of the SES-psychological well-being link.

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“…As a representative study, a series of experiments by Piff et al 7 revealed that people with high SC, as measured mainly by subjective indicators and objective indicators such as owning vehicles, were more likely to break the law while driving, steal valuable goods from others, lie in negotiations, commit fraud to increase the likelihood of winning prizes, and take unethical actions in the workplace (increase sales by, for example, making personal long-distance calls at work or overcharging customers) than people with low SC. Other studies showed that people with a high SC, in contrast to those with a low SC, had a lower characteristic score for compassion 8 ; inaccurate emotional reasoning related to others 9 ; more behaviors that indicate a lack of attention to others, such as playing with one's hands and doodling when interacting with strangers 10 ; and a tendency to engage in humor to control others 11 .…”

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“…Navarro-Carrillo et al 11 examined the association between humor and SC assessed by subjective indicators and objective indicators such as income and educational attainment. In their study, they hypothesized that SC is negatively correlated with a liative humor and positively associated with aggressive humor based on theories that emphasize the self-centered and sel sh tendencies of people with high SC 27,28 .…”

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“…The current study proposes and tests a new hypothesis about the relationship between SC and humor: previous research on SC and humor 11 was limited to using only some subscales of the HSQ (a liative and aggressive humor) to assess individual humor. We considered four types of humor as measured by the HSQ and two types of humor as assessed by the DSDHS to broadly capture the multidimensional structure of humor.…”

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Individuals of Higher Social Class Engage in Other-Oriented and Adaptive Humor

Tsukawaki

Imura

Hirakawa

2022

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Previous research on individual social class (SC) and humor has found support for the hypothesis that those with higher SC engage in dominant and selfish humor (aggressive humor). This hypothesis is based on the well-known theory that people with high SC are selfish, but there are mixed findings regarding this theoretical perspective. In this study, SC was measured by objective measures (income and educational attainment) and subjective measures (perceived social status) and examined in relation to humor. Previous research on SC and humor has been limited, focusing only on the limited dimensions of humor (aggressive and affiliative humor). In the present study, four types of humor assessed by the Humor Styles Questionnaire and two types of humor measured by the Dual Self-Directed Humor Scale were taken into account to learn more about the relationship between SC and humor. Study 1 (N = 344) and Study 2 (N = 604) consistently showed that SC and aggressive humor are not related, and the findings of previous studies were not replicated. Rather, SC was shown to be positively associated with adaptive humor, such as other-oriented humor and humor for coping with stress.

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“…); self-enhancing humor enhances the self by finding humorous or positive aspects in daily events to reduce stress by using humor as an emotion regulation mechanism (e.g., Remember funny situations to overcome stress and tension. ); aggressive humor is other-focused and boosts the self at the expense of other people by ridiculing or putting them down; self-defeating humor attempts to amuse others to gain approval by saying or doing funny things while ridiculing oneself (Navarro-Carrillo et al, 2020). Referring to the above can be considered affiliative and selfenhancing humor styles are positive or constructive, and aggressive and self-defeating humor styles are negative or destructive.…”

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The Role of Employee Trust in the Relationship Between Leaders’ Aggressive Humor and Knowledge Sharing

Fayyad

2020

Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hos

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Purpose-The current paper aims to examine leaders' aggressive humor's influence on knowledge-sharing among hotel employees. Employee Trust is also tested as a moderator variable between this association. Design/methodology-An online questionnaire of 387 customer-contact employees of 38 five-star hotels located in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt provided data on the moderating role of trust in aggressive humor-knowledge-sharing relationships. Using the SEM by the PLS method by SmartPLS3 program, the data were analyzed, and the hypotheses were tested. Findings-Aggressive humor is negatively related to knowledge-sharing among hotel employees. Results also confirm the intervening role of trust as a moderator in the relationship between aggressive humor and knowledge-sharing. Practical implications-The results underscore the trust variable's benefits as a moderator in the relationship between aggressive humor and knowledge-sharing. Originality/value-This paper developed a model for the moderating effect of trust on the association between aggressive humor and knowledge-sharing. Thus, the study fills part of the gap dearth of studies that have examined the impact of negative humor in the workplace.

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Class-based differences in the use of (aggressive) humor: The mediating role of empathic concern

Cited by 10 publications

References 46 publications

Socioeconomic Status and Psychological Well-Being: Revisiting the Role of Subjective Socioeconomic Status

Socioeconomic Status and Psychological Well-Being: Revisiting the Role of Subjective Socioeconomic Status

Individuals of Higher Social Class Engage in Other-Oriented and Adaptive Humor

The Role of Employee Trust in the Relationship Between Leaders’ Aggressive Humor and Knowledge Sharing

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