Relationship between humor styles and alternative five factors of personality

Čekrlija, Đorđe; Mrđa, Petar; Vujaković, Lana; Aluja, Antón

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2022.111625

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“…An important limitation in the present study is related to the results found with the ZKA-PQ SF scales as a measure of personality traits from the AFFM. Although previous research has reported high internal consistency estimates for the ZKA-PQ SF scales and satisfactory reliability estimates for the facets in samples from Bosnia and Herzegovina (Aluja et al, 2018; Čekrlija et al, 2022), the internal consistency estimates for the facets in this study were lower than the values previously reported. In addition, we were unable to replicate the five-factor structure proposed by Zuckerman in the current study.…”

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Being Flexible in Zuckerman’s Alternative Personality Space

Čekrlija,

Schermer

2024

Journal of Individual Differences

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Psychological flexibility has attracted significant research interest but surprisingly, investigations about the relationships with personality traits from the biological models of personality have been neglected. The present study therefore aimed to shed more light on the nature of the relationship between psychological flexibility and personality dimensions from Zuckerman’s Alternative Five-Factor Model (AFFM) based on a sample of 398 adults. Psychological flexibility was negatively associated with neuroticism and positively associated with extraversion, aggressiveness, and sensation seeking. Lower neuroticism, higher extraversion, and being a woman significantly predicted approximately 39% of the variance in psychological flexibility. A joint exploratory factor analysis found psychological flexibility located in the neuroticism factor of personality. Findings show that the AFFM can be used as an adequate personality model in explaining the nature of psychological flexibility-inflexibility based on the associations between their sub-processes and lower levels of personality traits. The nature of the relationships between psychological flexibility with both sensation seeking and aggressiveness requires closer investigation.

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“…The data were analyzed using the JASP (JASP Team, 2021) and SPSS (IBM Corp, 2012) statistical packages. The data is available via the Open Science Framework (OSF) at https://osf.io/v5cty/ (Čekrlija, 2023).…”

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Being Flexible in Zuckerman’s Alternative Personality Space

Čekrlija,

Schermer

2024

Journal of Individual Differences

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“…Some authors suggest that katagelasticism may be a cause of trolling behavior [49]. Additionally, aggressive humor is positively associated with the readiness to be verbally aggressive [50] which, we expect, may be expressed in trolling. In fact, sarcasm and mockery (aggressive forms of humor [51]) can be tactics trolls use to disrupt discussions [20,52].…”

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Troll story: The dark tetrad and online trolling revisited with a glance at humor

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Internet trolling is considered a negative form of online interaction that can have detrimental effects on people’s well-being. This pre-registered, experimental study had three aims: first, to replicate the association between internet users’ online trolling behavior and the Dark Tetrad of personality (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and sadism) established in prior research; second, to investigate the effect of experiencing social exclusion on people’s motivation to engage in trolling behavior; and third, to explore the link between humor styles and trolling behavior. In this online study, participants were initially assessed on their personality, humor styles, and global trolling behavior. Next, respondents were randomly assigned to a social inclusion or exclusion condition. Thereafter, we measured participants’ immediate trolling motivation. Results drawn from 1,026 German-speaking participants indicate a clear correlation between global trolling and all facets of the Dark Tetrad as well as with aggressive and self-defeating humor styles. However, no significant relationship between experiencing exclusion/inclusion and trolling motivation emerged. Our quantile regression findings suggest that psychopathy and sadism scores have a significant positive effect on immediate trolling motivation after the experimental manipulation, whereas Machiavellianism and narcissism did not explain variation in trolling motivation. Moreover, being socially excluded had generally no effect on immediate trolling motivation, apart from participants with higher immediate trolling motivation, for whom the experience of social exclusion actually reduced trolling motivation. We show that not all facets of the Dark Tetrad are of equal importance for predicting immediate trolling motivation and that research should perhaps focus more on psychopathy and sadism. Moreover, our results emphasize the relevance of quantile regression in personality research and suggest that even psychopathy and sadism may not be suitable predictors for low levels of trolling behavior.

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“…However, according to the circumplex model of affect (Russell, 1980), another important dimension of emotions is arousal that represents the intensity or activation level of an emotion. A recent study (Čekrlija et al , 2022) analyzed the relationship between humor styles and the alternative five-factor model of personality (Zuckerman et al , 1993) and found that sensation seeking (a trait based on the idea that differences in the level of arousal have an impact on people’s behavior) was a significant predictor of all humor styles. While sensation seeking might be the source of people’s general tendency to use humor, other personality traits (e.g.…”

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Personality and humor in groups: implications for collective emotional intelligence, psychological safety and satisfaction

Gheorghe,

Curșeu,

Fodor

2024

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Purpose This study aims to explore the role of team personality and leader’s humor style on the use of humor in group communication and the extent to which group humor mediates the association between team personality on the one hand, psychological safety, collective emotional intelligence and group satisfaction on the other hand. Design/methodology/approach The authors used a survey to collect data from 304 employees nested in 83 groups working in organizations from various sectors in Romania. Findings The study results show that extraversion is positively associated with group affiliative humor, while neuroticism has a positive association with group aggressive humor. The leader’s affiliative humor style had a significant positive effect on group affiliative humor, while the effect of leader’s aggressive humor style on the use of aggressive humor in groups was not significant. Furthermore, the authors examined the mediation role of group humor in the relationship between team personality and team emergent states and satisfaction. The authors found that group aggressive humor mediates the association between neuroticism and group emotional intelligence, psychological safety and satisfaction, while affiliative humor mediates the association between extraversion and emotional intelligence and team satisfaction. Originality/value The study reports one of the first attempts to explore the multilevel interplay of team personality and humor in groups as they relate to emergent states.

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Relationship between humor styles and alternative five factors of personality

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Being Flexible in Zuckerman’s Alternative Personality Space

Being Flexible in Zuckerman’s Alternative Personality Space

Troll story: The dark tetrad and online trolling revisited with a glance at humor

Personality and humor in groups: implications for collective emotional intelligence, psychological safety and satisfaction

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