Humor styles and personality: A meta‐analysis of the relation between humor styles and the Big Five personality traits

Mendiburo-Seguel, Andrés; Páez, Darío; Sánchez, Francisco Martínez

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“…The relevant criteria of the HSQ are humor and psychosocial well-being, as the humor style concepts were derived from the literature in these two areas, and as the humor styles are defined as everyday functions of humor that are relevant to psychosocial well-being (Martin et al, 2003). Besides relating the HSQ to humor-related scales (e.g., Martin et al, 2003; Kuiper et al, 2004; Ruch and Heintz, 2016) and humor behaviors (Heintz, 2017), the HSQ is usually compared to personality traits (for a meta-analysis with the Big Five personality traits, see Mendiburo-Seguel et al, 2015) and to subjective well-being (e.g., Edwards and Martin, 2010, 2014; Jovanovic, 2011; Ruch and Heintz, 2013; Maiolino and Kuiper, 2014). These relationships have usually been associated with the humor in the HSQ scales.…”

Section: Study 2: Criterion Validity Of the Humor In The Humor Stylesmentioning

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Experimentally Manipulating Items Informs on the (Limited) Construct and Criterion Validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire

Ruch

Heintz

2017

Front. Psychol.

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How strongly does humor (i.e., the construct-relevant content) in the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ; Martin et al., 2003) determine the responses to this measure (i.e., construct validity)? Also, how much does humor influence the relationships of the four HSQ scales, namely affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating, with personality traits and subjective well-being (i.e., criterion validity)? The present paper answers these two questions by experimentally manipulating the 32 items of the HSQ to only (or mostly) contain humor (i.e., construct-relevant content) or to substitute the humor content with non-humorous alternatives (i.e., only assessing construct-irrelevant context). Study 1 (N = 187) showed that the HSQ affiliative scale was mainly determined by humor, self-enhancing and aggressive were determined by both humor and non-humorous context, and self-defeating was primarily determined by the context. This suggests that humor is not the primary source of the variance in three of the HQS scales, thereby limiting their construct validity. Study 2 (N = 261) showed that the relationships of the HSQ scales to the Big Five personality traits and subjective well-being (positive affect, negative affect, and life satisfaction) were consistently reduced (personality) or vanished (subjective well-being) when the non-humorous contexts in the HSQ items were controlled for. For the HSQ self-defeating scale, the pattern of relationships to personality was also altered, supporting an positive rather than a negative view of the humor in this humor style. The present findings thus call for a reevaluation of the role that humor plays in the HSQ (construct validity) and in the relationships to personality and well-being (criterion validity).

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Section: Study 2: Criterion Validity Of the Humor In The Humor Stylesmentioning

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Experimentally Manipulating Items Informs on the (Limited) Construct and Criterion Validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire

Ruch

Heintz

2017

Front. Psychol.

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“…Najbardziej rozpowszechnionym ujęciem osobowości jest teoria "wielkiej piątki" [11], która wykorzystywana była w wielu badaniach, w tym dotyczących humoru [12]. Obok niej popularna jest również koncepcja Hansa Eysencka, która zakłada istnienie trzech głównych dyspozycji -ekstrawersji (E), neurotyzmu (N) i psychotyzmu (P), opisujących różnice indywidualne w zakresie funkcjonowania poznawczego, emocjonalnego i społecznego.…”

Section: Trójczynnikowa Teoria Osobowości Hansa Eysenckaunclassified

“…w utrwalonych cechach psychicznych. Metaanaliza badań nad humorem w kontekście osobowościowej koncepcji "wielkiej piątki" wykazała silny związek pomiędzy adaptacyjnym humorem afiliacyjnym a podwyższoną ekstrawersją i obniżonym neurotyzmem [12]. Ten pozytywny styl humoru był również istotnym predyktorem ogólnego poczucia szczęścia i zadowolenia z siebie [21].…”

Section: Humor I Orientacja Pozytywna Oraz Ich Związki Z Dyspozycjamiunclassified

Poczucie humoru oraz pozytywna orientacja na siebie i świat w kontekście osobowościowych różnic indywidualnych

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Suchecka

Kotowska

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Pomeranian J Life Sci

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Introduction:The aim of this paper describes the relationships between relatively stable personality traits, styles of humour and strength of positive orientation to the self and the external world. Good humour and a positive attitude are considered factors of health, by supporting a state of psychophysiological well-being and mediating the process of treating mental disorders, as well as physical illnesses. The aim of the study was to identify personality traits related to constructive humour and a positive orientation to life, and thus promoting general well-being and motivation to take care of one's own health and psychophysical condition. Materials and methods: A questionnaire-based survey involved a group of 68 students of two social and medical universities in Szczecin (66% women, 34% men) aged 20 to 49 years (M = 24,5; SD = 6.4). Three standardized psychological test were used: the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire EPQ-R, the Humour Styles Questionnaire HSQ, and The Positivity Scale. Results: The survey indicated the positive impact of extraversion (associated with a higher general sense of humour and aggressive humour), and a reduced need for social approval (associated with affiliative humour), as well as the negative impact of neuroticism, which was associated with higher masochistic humour, lower self-enhancing humour, and decreased positive orientation. Conclusions:The study suggests that a personality profile characterised by openness to people and the external world, and at the same time emotionally balanced, with a predominance of positive feelings is preferred from the point of view of a positive attitude. Keywords: personality; humour; positive orientation; well-being. ABSTRAKT Wstęp: W pracy opisano zależności zachodzące pomiędzy względnie stałymi cechami osobowości a stylami poczucia humoru oraz siłą pozytywnej orientacji na siebie i świat. Dobry humor i pozytywne nastawienie uznawane są za czynniki zdrowia, które wspomagają utrzymanie dobrostanu psychofizycznego i pośredniczą w procesie leczenia zarówno zaburzeń psychicznych, jak i chorób fizycznych. Celem pracy było wyodrębnienie dyspozycji osobowościowych, które wiążą się z konstruktywnym humorem i pozytywną orientacją na siebie i świat. Materiały i metody: Badaniem kwestionariuszowym objęto grupę 68 studentów szczecińskich uczelni wyższych (66% kobiet, 34% mężczyzn) w wieku 20-49 lat (M = 24,5; SD = 6,4). Wykorzystano Kwestionariusz Osobowości EPQ-R, Kwestionariusz Stylów Humoru HSQ oraz Skalę Orientacji Pozytywnej.Wyniki: Wykazano korzystne znaczenie ekstrawersji (związanej z humorem ogólnym i agresywnym) oraz obniżonej potrzeby aprobaty społecznej (związanej z humorem afiliacyjnym). Niekorzystne związki zachodziły w odniesieniu do cechy neurotyzmu, co wiązało się z wysokim humorem masochistycznym, niskim humorem w służbie ego oraz niższą orientacją pozytywną, a także cechy psychotyzmu, wzmagającej agresywny styl żartu. Wnioski: Z punktu widzenia pozytywnego nastawienia do siebie i innych korzystny wydaje się profil osobowości ot...

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“…under the threat of punishment, or having the payment of money contingent upon their performances), are less likely to perform puzzle solving activity than subjects who solved the same puzzles 18 There is also a situationist debate over the Big Five: five scores (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) that are given to us that tell us a great deal about the ways we behave through our lives (Nettle 2007). (See also, Judge et al 1999;Mendiburo-Seguel et al 2015). Miller argues the Big Five contradicts virtue theory because those personality traits implied by the data are relatively fixed, tied to our genetic makeup, and variations in traits are produced as a result of natural selection (Nettle 2006;Cravchik and Goldman 2000), hence, such traits are not suitable for our ethical evaluation as virtue theorist assume (Miller 2014).…”

Section: Self-determination Theorymentioning

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Situationism, virtue epistemology, and self-determination theory

Iizuka

2018

Synthese

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Situationists (e.g., Doris in Lack of character: personality and moral behavior, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002; Harman in Proc Aristot Soc 99:315-331, 1999. https://doi.org/10.2307/4545312), with reference to empirical work in psychology, have called into question the predictive and explanatory power of character traits and on this basis have criticized the empirical adequacy of moral virtue. More recently, Alfano (Philos Q 62(247):223-249, 2012; Character as moral fiction, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013) has extended the situationist critique from virtue ethics to virtue epistemology. On the line he advances, virtue responsibilism-the view that intellectual character traits play an important part in traditional and untraditional epistemological inquiries-is criticized as empirically inadequate in light of the extent to which individuals are shown to be susceptible to seemingly trivial and epistemically irrelevant situational influences. Alfano's attempted redeployment of the situationist challenge to virtue responsibilism is on closer inspection not as straightforward as he claims. It is granted that the empirical adequacy of virtue responsibilism will be eventually threatened if it can be shown that virtuous motivation is, in light of situational factors, causally ineffective. As it turns out, various psychological studies which situationists have overlooked, suggest that virtuous motivation is causally efficacious in a way that favours the position of the virtue responsibilist over the situationist. In the first part of this paper, I outline the hard core of virtue theory: both a rich motivation requirement, and a commitment to the inherent relation between virtue and a good life; then I assess whether these are undermined by situationist criticism. I address the confusion of the existing debate, and the conclusion drawn is that virtue theory ultimately remains unscathed. In the second part of my 123Synthese paper I defend the empirical adequacy of virtue theory based on self-determination theory. When we afford closer attention to studies on the orientation of our motivation, it becomes clear how the dynamics of our motivation have a tremendous influence on desirable behavioural outcomes: a good life.

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Humor styles and personality: A meta‐analysis of the relation between humor styles and the Big Five personality traits

Cited by 86 publications

References 24 publications

Experimentally Manipulating Items Informs on the (Limited) Construct and Criterion Validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire

Experimentally Manipulating Items Informs on the (Limited) Construct and Criterion Validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire

Poczucie humoru oraz pozytywna orientacja na siebie i świat w kontekście osobowościowych różnic indywidualnych

Situationism, virtue epistemology, and self-determination theory

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