Benevolent and corrective humor, life satisfaction, and broad humor dimensions: Extending the nomological network of the BenCor across 25 countries. Journal of Happiness Studies, 21, 2473–2492.
Sonja Heintz, et al. [full author details at the end of the article]
Published online: 16 October 2019
© Springer Nature B.V. 2019
Abstract
Benevolent and corrective humor are two comic styles that have been related to virtue, morality, and character strengths. A previous study also supported the viability of measuring these two styles with the BenCor in 22 countries. The present study extends the previous one by including further countries (a total of 25 countries in 29 samples with N=7813), by testing the revised BenCor (BenCor-R), and by adding two criterion measures to assess life satisfaction and four broad humor dimensions (social fun/entertaining humor, mockery, humor ineptness, and cognitive/refective humor). As expected, the BenCor-R showed mostly promising psychometric properties (internal consistency and factorial validity).
Consistent with previous studies, benevolent humor correlated positively with life satisfaction in most countries, while corrective humor was uncorrelated with life satisfaction.
These relationships were only slightly changed when controlling for social fun/entertaining humor and mockery, respectively. Benevolent humor was mostly positively associated with cognitive/refective humor, followed by social fun/entertaining humor and mockery.
Corrective humor was mostly positively associated with mockery, followed by cognitive/refective and social fun/entertaining humor, although these relationships difered between the countries. Overall, the present study supports the viability of benevolent and corrective humor, which has yet received insufcient attention in psychology, for cross-cultural investigations and applications of humor, well-being, and morality.
Keywords Humor · Life satisfaction · Cross-cultural comparisons · BenCor
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Benevolent and corrective humor, life satisfaction, and broad humor dimensions: Extending the nomological network of the BenCor across 25 countries. Journal of Happiness Studies, 21, 2473–2492.
Sonja Heintz, et al. [full author details at the end of the article]
Published online: 16 October 2019
© Springer Nature B.V. 2019
Abstract
Benevolent and corrective humor are two comic styles that have been related to virtue, morality, and character strengths. A previous study also supported the viability of measuring these two styles with the BenCor in 22 countries. The present study extends the previous one by including further countries (a total of 25 countries in 29 samples with N=7813), by testing the revised BenCor (BenCor-R), and by adding two criterion measures to assess life satisfaction and four broad humor dimensions (social fun/entertaining humor, mockery, humor ineptness, and cognitive/refective humor). As expected, the BenCor-R showed mostly promising psychometric properties (internal consistency and factorial validity).
Consistent with previous studies, benevolent humor correlated positively with life satisfaction in most countries, while corrective humor was uncorrelated with life satisfaction.
These relationships were only slightly changed when controlling for social fun/entertaining humor and mockery, respectively. Benevolent humor was mostly positively associated with cognitive/refective humor, followed by social fun/entertaining humor and mockery.
Corrective humor was mostly positively associated with mockery, followed by cognitive/refective and social fun/entertaining humor, although these relationships difered between the countries. Overall, the present study supports the viability of benevolent and corrective humor, which has yet received insufcient attention in psychology, for cross-cultural investigations and applications of humor, well-being, and morality.
Keywords Humor · Life satisfaction · Cross-cultural comparisons · BenCor
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