A teacher should have adaptive humor styles as well knowledge, skills and attitudes about their profession. Humor affect many behaviors; from the relationships that teachers establish with students to characteristics. For this reason, research was carried out determine of candidates. 491 Teacher candidates participated in study, who were 3rd 4th grade faculty education at 2 universities Turkey....

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., cr...

The extent to which humor and negative affect each predict different components of physical health was examined by having 105 participants complete measures of four distinct humor styles, negative affect, and three indices of physical health. An increased number of physical symptoms and more negative attitudes about illness were associated with higher levels of negative affect, but were unrelat...

In this article some formal, content-related and procedural considerations towards the sense of humor are articulated and the analysis of both everyday humor behavior and of comic styles leads to the initial proposal of a four factormodel of humor (4FMH). This model is tested in a new dataset and it is also examined whether two forms of comic styles (benevolent humor and moral mockery) do fit i...

Abstract Humor is considered a coping strategy that associated with well-being and positive self-esteem. The role of humor in relation to body image eating behaviors has rarely been investigated. This cross-sectional study ( n = 216) examined the relationship between general styles targeting self, namely self-enhancing self-defeating humor, behaviors. Results showed adaptive was appreciation co...

One thousand and seventy three pairs of adult monozygotic (MZ) twins and 895 pairs of same sex adult dizygotic (DZ) twins from the United Kingdom (UK) completed the Humor Styles Questionnaire: a 32-item measure which assesses two positive and two negative styles of humor. MZ correlations were approximately twice as large as DZ correlations for all four humor styles, and univariate behavioral ge...

Objective: This descriptive and relational study was conducted to examine the relationship between palliative care patients' humor styles death anxiety.
 Materials methods: The sample consisted of 282 patients treated in clinics a training research hospital January 2021 August 2021. Personal Information Form, Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ), Thorson-Powell Death Anxiety Scale (TPDAS) Pall...

Historical as well as contemporary writers across many disciplines have referred to humor as a virtue. However, in psychological research it is not clear in which ways humor can serve (as) a virtue, and for which virtues this holds. The current study addresses this issue from the perspective of lay people's everyday lives. The aims of the study are to investigate (1) how often people achieved e...