The German Version of the Humor Styles Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties and Overlap With Other Styles of Humor

Abstract: The Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ; Martin et al., 2003) is one of the most frequently used questionnaires in humor research and has been adapted to several languages. The HSQ measures four humor styles (affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating), which should be adaptive or potentially maladaptive to psychosocial well-being. The present study analyzes the internal consistency, factorial validity, and factorial invariance of the HSQ on the basis of several German-speaking samples combined (total N = 1,101). Separate analyses were conducted for gender (male/female), age groups (16–24, 25–35, >36 years old), and countries (Germany/Switzerland). Internal consistencies were good for the overall sample and the demographic subgroups (.80–.89), with lower values obtained for the aggressive scale (.66–.73). Principal components and confirmatory factor analyses mostly supported the four-factor structure of the HSQ. Weak factorial invariance was found across gender and age.... https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/1116

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: The German Version of the Humor Styles Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties and Overlap With Other Styles of Humor ; volume:12 ; number:3 ; day:19 ; month:08 ; year:2016 ; Europe's journal of psychology ; 12, Heft 3 (19.08.2016)

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• Creator: Willibald Ruch ; Sonja Heintz

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• DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v12i3.1116
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101417225182542680
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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