Relationship between styles of humor and facets of neuroticism

Provedeno je istraživanje putem inetrneta s ciljem utvrđivanja odnosa stilova humora i faceta neuroticizma. Na poziv za istraživanje odazvalo se 306 osoba prosječne dobi 29,7 godina, koje su ispunile dva upitnika, Upitnik stilova humora (HSQ) i dio upitnika ličnosti IPIP300 koji se odnosi na neuroticizam. Istraživanje je pokazalo da postoji slaba, ali značajna povezanost između svih faceta neuroticizma i stilova humora osim aflilijativnog stila s facetama ljutnje i neumjerenosti, te samopoboljšavajućeg stila s facetom neumjerenosti. Facete neuroticizma pozitivno su povezane s negativnim (zlonamjernim) stilovima humora, a negativno s pozitivnim (bezopasnim) stilovima humora. Regresijske analize pokazale su da facete neuroticizma objašnjavaju značajan dio varijance svakog od stilova humora. Samosvjesnost je najutjecajniji prediktor afilijativnog stila humora, a neumjerenost samopoboljšavajućeg stila. Kod agresivnog humora najutjecajniji prediktor je faceta ljutnje, a kod samoporažavajućeg stila depresivnost. Kod agresivnog stila značajni prediktori su i dob i spol. Neočekivani rezultat je da je neumjerenost pozitivni prediktor za samopoboljšavajući humor, a očekivalo se da će biti negativni. Muškarci i žene imaju različite tendencije u ekspresiji agresivnog i samoporažavajućeg humora u smjeru da su muškarci više skloni tim stilovima, dok ekspresija agresivnog humora opada s dobi sudionika. Usprkos nereprezentativnosti uzorka za hrvatsku populaciju potvrdila se pretpostavljena povezanost stilova humora s facetama neuroticizma te prediktivnost faceta neuroticizma za stilove humora.The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between styles of humor and facets of neuroticism. The study included 306 participants, average age 29,7, who completed two questionnaires online, Humor Style Questionnaire (HSQ) and part of IPIP300 that refers to neuroticism. Research showed weak but significant correlations between all humor styles and all facets except between affiliative style and anger and immoderation, and between self-enhancing style and immoderation. Facets of neuroticism are positively correlated with negative (malign) humor styles, and negatively with positive (benign) humor styles. Regression analyses showed that facets of neuroticism explain significant part of humor styles variance. Self-consciousness is the strongest predictor for affiliative humor, and immoderation is the strongest for self- enhancing humor. The strongest predictor for aggresive humor is anger, and for self- defeating humor the strongest predictor is depression. For aggresive humor style, age and gender are also significant predictors. An unexpected finding was that immoderation is a positive predictor for self-enhancing humor, since we expected that all facets would be negative predictors for that humor style. Men tend to use more aggresive and self-defeating humor styles, while expression of aggresive humor styles decreases with age. Despite its limitations, this study confirmed expected association of humor styles with facets of neuroticism, and predictiveness of humor styles by facets of neuroticism