Humor styles across 28 countries

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Humor styles across 28 countries

Journal Article (2019)

Author(s)

Julie Aitken Schermer (University of Western Ontario)

Radosław Rogoza (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw)

Maria Magdalena Kwiatkowska (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw)

Christopher Marcin Kowalski (University of Western Ontario)

Sibele Aquino (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)

Rahkman Ardi (Universitas Airlangga)

Henrietta Bolló (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Marija Branković (Singidunum University)

Razieh Chegeni (University of Bergen)

Jan Crusius (Universität zu Köln)

Marta Doroszuk (Jagiellonian University)

Violeta Enea (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University)

Thi Khanh Ha Truong (Vietnam National University Hanoi)

Dzintra Iliško (Daugavpils University)

Tomislav Jukić (University Josip Juraj Strossmayer)

Emira Kozarević (University of Tuzla)

Gert Kruger (University of Johannesburg)

Adil Kurtić (University of Tuzla)

Jens Lange (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Kadi Liik (Tallinn University)

Sadia Malik (University of Sargodha)

Samuel Lins (Universidade do Porto)

Agim Mamuti (University Mother Theresa)

Laura Martinez-Buelvas (Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar)

Benjamin Mrkušić (International University of Sarajevo)

Ginés Navarro-Carrillo (Loyola University Andalusia)

Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios (Universidad del Norte, Queensland University of Technology)

Emrah Özsoy (University of Sakarya)

Eva Papazova (IPHS-Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

Joonha Park (NUCB Business School)

Natalia Pylat (Ukrainian Catholic University)

Goran Riđić (University of Applied Management Studies)

Ognjen Riđić (International University of Sarajevo)

Dženan Skelić (University of Zenica)

Chee Seng Tan (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman)

Jorge Torres-Marín (Universidad de Granada)

Osman Uslu (University of Sakarya)

Tatiana Volkodav (Kuban State University)

Anna Włodarczyk (Universidad Catolica de Norte)

Georg Krammer (University College of Teacher Education Styria)

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Adults Cross culture Humor styles

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00552-y Final published version

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Publication Year

2019

Language

English

Affiliation

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Journal title

Current Psychology

Issue number

19

Volume number

42

Pages (from-to)

16304-16319

Downloads counter

448

Abstract

Responses to a measure of the four humor styles of affiliative, aggressive, self-enhancing, and self-defeating from the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ; Martin et al. Journal of Research in Personality, 37(1), 48–75, 2003) were collected from individuals (N = 8361) in 28 countries encompassing 21 different languages. The purpose of this global collaboration was to examine both differences and similarities of humor styles across nations at the descriptive level. Across the countries, typically the highest scores were for the affiliative humor style. When each humor style was examined, some country samples demonstrated differences in mean scores. For example, the samples from Hungary, Indonesia, South Africa, and Serbia had high self-enhancing scores and Japan scored the lowest. In contrast to mean differences, almost all of the countries demonstrated positive inter-scale correlations, similar sex differences, and similar correlations with age, suggesting more similarities than differences. As discussed, some of the samples had low internal consistency values and poorly fitting factor structures for the humor style scales, suggesting that those results should be interpreted with caution.