In the current study, the Humour Styles Questionnaire Children Version (HSQC) was translated into Chinese. The psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Humour Styles Questionnaire Children version (C-HSQC) were examined.
Kelly Y. L. Ku +4 more
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Longitudinal associations between younger children's humour styles and psychosocial adjustment
Whilst a multitude of studies have examined links between different styles of humour and aspects of adjustment, longitudinal research is noticeably lacking. Following a study which identified bidirectional associations between humour styles and psychosocial adjustment in older children ...
Lucy Amelia James, Claire Louise Fox
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HUMOUR STYLES AS MEDIATORS BETWEEN SELF-ESTEEM AND LONELINESS
This study investigated whether the different humour styles mediate the relationship between self-esteem and loneliness. A sample of 689 undergraduate students completed self-report measures of self-esteem, humour styles and loneliness. Previous research (Cacioppo Patrick, 2009) indicates an inverse relationship between self-esteem and loneliness and ...
Heather Delaney, Gert Kruger
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Humour styles, personality and psychological well-being: What’s humour got to do with it?
The Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ) by Martin et al. (2003) measures four humour styles, namely affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive and self-defeating.
Willibald Friedrich Ruch, Sonja Heintz
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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EMPLOYEES AND MANAGERS REGARDING SOCIO-EMOTIONAL COMPETENCES [PDF]
The main goal of this paper is to examine differences between employees and managers in attachment styles, emotional intelligence, life satisfaction, personality traits and humour styles, as well to discuss implications of this connection to the quality ...
Gordana Nikić +2 more
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Exploring humour within the early childhood period from children’s and teachers’ perspectives
The purpose of this study was to examine humour from the perspectives of 60-72-month-old children and their teachers in Turkey. A phenomenological method was used to collect data through semi-structured interviews, which included each child making a ...
Betül Yılmaz, Feyza Tantekin Erden
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Exploring the consistency and value of humour style profiles [PDF]
Establishing generalisable humour style profiles promises to have significant value for educational, clinical, and occupational application. However, previous research investigating such profiles has thus far presented inconsistent results. To determine the generalisability and value of humour style profiles, a large and geographically diverse ...
Evans, Thomas Rhys +14 more
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The association between sense of humour and trauma-related mental health outcomes: two exploratory studies [PDF]
Two studies (n = 73, n = 132) explored the association between sense of humour and trauma related well-being outcomes. It was found that sense of humour was not associated with reports of posttraumatic growth as measured by the Posttraumatic Growth ...
Boerner, Michaela +2 more
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Birds of a Feather Laugh Together: An Investigation of Humour Style Similarity in Married Couples
The present research investigated the degree of similarity in humour styles between spouses as assessed with the Humour Styles Questionnaire (HSQ). Furthermore, self-esteem was investigated as a potential moderator of partner humour style similarity.
Christian Martin Hahn +1 more
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The Divisive Power of Humour: Comedy, Taste and Symbolic Boundaries [PDF]
Using British and Dutch interview data, this article demonstrates how people from different social classes draw strong symbolic boundaries on the basis of comedy taste.
Bellevance G +10 more
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