Abstract Background Studies on children’s humor mainly focus on short-term effects of sense of humor and laughter. There is also evidence that children possess the predisposition to communicate humorously, labeled “Humor Orientation” (HO). All children possess some level of HO, but highly humor oriented children enact humor successfully and frequently, perceive situations more often as funny, and perform humorously across different interactions than low humor oriented children. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a short-form of the Child Humor Orientation Scale (Booth-Butterfield et al. 2011), a questionnaire assessing HO in children, and to analyze its relations to well-being. Methods After forward-backward-translation procedure, the CHO-Scale was validated in a sample of parents of 296 pre-school children (3–6 years). The CHO-Scale was shortened to 10 items on the basis of factor loadings and content-related aspects. Results Exploratory factor analysis of the CHO-10 revealed a two-factor solution. Reliability and Validity of the main score and the subscales are acceptable. Children with high HO show higher social competencies, emotion knowledge, quality of life, and lower trait anxiety. Discussion The CHO-10 Scale is suitable as a valid, reliable and economic measure of Child Humor Orientation.

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儿童幽默取向量表简表的开发和验证

摘要 背景 儿童幽默的研究主要集中在幽默感和笑声的短期影响。还有证据表明，儿童具有幽默交流的倾向，标记为“幽默取向”（HO）。所有的孩子都具有一定程度的 HO，但高度幽默的孩子比低幽默的孩子成功地、频繁地表达幽默，更经常地认为情况是有趣的，并且在不同的互动中表现得幽默。本研究的目的是开发和验证儿童幽默取向量表（Booth-Butterfield 等人，2011 年）的简短形式，这是一种评估儿童 HO 的问卷，并分析其与幸福感的关系。方法经过前向后向翻译程序，CHO-量表在296名学龄前儿童（3-6岁）的父母样本中得到验证。根据因素负荷和内容相关方面，CHO 量表被缩短为 10 个项目。结果 CHO-10 的探索性因素分析揭示了一个双因素解决方案。主要评分和分量表的信度和效度是可以接受的。高 HO 的儿童表现出更高的社交能力、情感知识、生活质量和更低的特质焦虑。讨论 CHO-10 量表适合作为儿童幽默取向的有效、可靠和经济的衡量标准。