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Trait cheerfulness and the sense of humour

Ruch, Willibald; Carrell, Amy (1998). Trait cheerfulness and the sense of humour. Personality and Individual Differences, 24(4):551-558.

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The present paper examines the hypothesis thar trait cheerfulness, seriousness, and bad mood form the temperamental basis of the sense of humour. American(N = 263)and German (N = 151) adults filled in the state-trait cheerfulness inventory and a sense of humour scale. Correlations between the two inventories showed that trait cheerfulness accounted for most of the variance-in the sense of humour scales with seriousness and bad mood displaying some incremental validity. The sense of humour subscales and the facets of cheerfulness formed a potent first factor in a joint factor analysis of the subscales of the two inventories. While seriousness and playfulness-recently proposed as being the basis of the sense of humour-were indeed related to the sense of humour scales: they contained additional variance and loaded on the subsequent factors of trait seriousness and bad mood. The results are discussed in the context of the necessity of separating affective and mental factors in the sense of humour. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Psychology
Dewey Decimal Classification:150 Psychology
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > General Psychology
Language:English
Date:1998
Deposited On:22 Apr 2013 14:36
Last Modified:26 Oct 2024 03:40
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:0191-8869
OA Status:Green
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00221-3,
Official URL:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886997002213

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