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hsq: Humor Styles

Description

The dataset was collected with an interactive online version of the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ) which assesses four independent ways in which people express and appreciate humor (Martin et al. 2003): affiliative, defined as the benign uses of humor to enhance one's relationships with others; self-enhancing, indicating uses of humor to enhance the self; aggressive, the use of humor to enhance the self at the expense of others; self-defeating the use of humor to enhance relationships at the expense of oneself. The main part of the questionnaire consisted of 32 statements rated from 1 to 5 according to the respondents' level of agreement. Three more questions were included (age, gender and self-reported accuracy of answer). The number of respondents is 993, after removing the cases with missing values in the 32 statements.

Usage

data("hsq")

Format

A data frame with 993 observations on 35 variables. The first 32 variables are Likert-type statements with 5 response categories, ranging from 1 (strong agreement) to 5 (strong disagreement).

Source

Martin, R. A., Puhlik-Doris, P., Larsen, G., Gray, J., & Weir, K. (2003). Individual differences in uses of humor and their relation to psychological well-being: Development of the Humor Styles Questionnaire. Journal of Research in Personality, 37(1), 48-75.

Examples

data(hsq)