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dc.contributor.authorHeintz, Sonja
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-06T21:28:13Z
dc.date.available2020-04-06T21:28:13Z
dc.date.issued2017-01
dc.identifier.issn0191-8869
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/15513
dc.description.abstract

Although psychological humor research has expanded in the last decades, the humor behaviors that people show in their everyday lives are still poorly understood. To fill this gap, this diary study explores the dimensionality of 45 daily humor behaviors and their relationships with the Big Five personality traits and subjective well-being. Furthermore, the humor behaviors were utilized to investigate the criterion validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire. A hierarchical factor analysis of the humor behaviors (N = 123) revealed seven dimensions: Cheerful, witty, deriding, amused, sarcastic, self-directed, and canned. These humor behavior dimensions correlated with emotional stability, extraversion, lower agreeableness, and culture/openness. Also cheerful, amused, and self-directed humor behaviors correlated positively with subjective well-being, even when personality and the humor styles were controlled for. The criterion correlations of the humor styles to their constituting humor behaviors were medium to large for affiliative and self-enhancing, and small to medium for aggressive and self-defeating. Overall, investigating humor behaviors seems a promising venue for future research and applications of individual differences in humor.

dc.format.extent407-412
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier BV
dc.subjectHumor behaviors
dc.subjectPersonality
dc.subjectBig Five
dc.subjectSubjective well-being
dc.subjectHumor Styles Questionnaire
dc.subjectCriterion validity
dc.subjectDaily diaries
dc.titlePutting a spotlight on daily humor behaviors: Dimensionality and relationships with personality, subjective well-being, and humor styles
dc.typejournal-article
dc.typeJournal Article
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plymouth.volume104
plymouth.publication-statusPublished
plymouth.journalPersonality and Individual Differences
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.paid.2016.08.042
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dcterms.dateAccepted2016-08-26
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