Humor styles and personality traits: an overview of connections and gender differences in the Slovenian sample

V tej magistrski nalogi so nas zanimale povezave med stili humorja in spolom ter stili humorja in osebnostnimi značilnostmi pri Slovencih. Pri izvedbi raziskave sta bila uporabljena vprašalnika BFI in HSQ. Vprašalnik stilov humorja (HSQ) je bil preveden v slovenščino, preverjena sta bila njegova zanesljivost in število komponent. Pokazale so se zadovoljive psihometrične lastnosti – zanesljivost je bila sprejemljiva, komponentna analiza je pokazala štirikomponentno strukturo. Nekatere postavke so se izkazale kot težavne, zato v prihodnje priporočamo njihovo predrugačenje za izboljšanje slovenske verzije HSQ. Na vzorcu je bilo ugotovljeno, da moški v večji meri kot ženske uporabljajo samopodcenjevalni, agresivni in samokrepitveni humor, medtem ko v uporabi povezovalnega stila humorja med spoloma ni razlik. Povezovalni in samokrepitveni humor sta pozitivno povezana z ekstravertnostjo, agresivni humor pa kaže negativno povezanost s čustveno stabilnostjo, sprejemljivostjo in vestnostjo. Samopodcenjevalni stil humorja ni kazal značilnih povezav z nobeno od osebnostnih lastnosti, medtem ko samokrepitveni kaže povezave z vsemi razen z vestnostjo. Ugotovitve se v določeni meri skladajo z ugotovitvami predhodnih raziskav, pri čemer je treba upoštevati, da je humor kulturno specifičen, kar se kaže na njegovih povezavah s spolom in osebnostnimi lastnostmi.In this master thesis we analyzed interesting connections between the styles of humor in gender and humor styles and personality traits among Slovenes. The survey was conducted with the HSQ and BFI questionnaires. The HSQ questionnaire was translated into Slovenian and its reliability and other number of components were verified. It was shown to have satisfactory psychometric properties – reliability was acceptable and component analysis revealed a four-component structure. Some of the questions have proved to be problematic so in the future we recommend that they be altered for the Slovenian version of HSQ. Nevertheless it was found that men measured higher than women in self-enhancing, aggressive and self-defeating humor style, in use of affilliative humor style there were no differences between men and women. Affiliative and self-enhancing humor styles are positively correlated to extraversion while aggressive humor style shows negative correlations to emotional stability, agreeableness and conscientiousness. Self-defeating humor style showed no statistically significant correlations to any of the personality traits while self-enhancing showed correlations to all except with conscientiousness. The findings to some extent agree with findings of previous research but we have to keep in mind that humor is culturally specific and that is shown in its connections with gender and personality traits