<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:creator>Ruch W</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Heintz S</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2016</dc:date>
  <dc:description xmlns:ns0="xml" ns0:lang="en">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, &gt;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 groups, while strong factorial invariance was supported across countries. Two subsamples also provided self-ratings on ten styles of humorous conduct (n = 344) and of eight comic styles (n = 285). The four HSQ scales showed small to large correlations to the styles of humorous conduct (-.54 to .65) and small to medium correlations to the comic styles (-.27 to .42). The HSQ shared on average 27.5-35.0% of the variance with the styles of humorous conduct and 13.0-15.0% of the variance with the comic styles. Thus-despite similar labels-these styles of humorous conduct and comic styles differed from the HSQ humor styles.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>https://sonar.ch/global/documents/260207</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.5964/ejop.v12i3.1116</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/27547259</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:source>Europe's journal of psychology. - 2016</dc:source>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns1="xml" ns1:lang="en">German adaptation</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns2="xml" ns2:lang="en">Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ)</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns3="xml" ns3:lang="en">comic styles</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns4="xml" ns4:lang="en">factorial invariance</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns5="xml" ns5:lang="en">factorial validity</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns6="xml" ns6:lang="en">reliability</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns7="xml" ns7:lang="en">styles of humorous conduct</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xmlns:ns8="xml" ns8:lang="en">The German Version of the Humor Styles Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties and Overlap With Other Styles of Humor.</dc:title>
  <dc:type>http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>